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The present research focuses on analyzing the structure, scope, and impact of Gender-Based Violence (GBV), harassment, and sexual harassment against women in workplace and academic contexts of the accounting profession from a critical perspective of the discipline. To this end, semi-structured interviews were conducted with female accountants, officials from the Secretary of Women and Institutional Well-being; statistical review of gender violence observatories at the national and district levels was carried out; and probabilistic sampling of information was applied to different universities in Bogotá with distance-virtual study modality and to regulatory entities of the profession. The results show the deep-seated existence of a symbolic patriarchy in the workplace and academic contexts in which female public accountants operate, which invisibilizes the issues and demonstrates the inefficiency, neglect, and lack of commitment to the well-being of female university students in general, and professionals in the accounting field. This generates negative consequences for the victims in their workplace, study, and quality of life, with possible inefficient safeguards to ensure accounting work within the framework of dignity, corporate social responsibility, and professional ethics.
