1st Edition

Gender Equality and Responsible Business Expanding CSR Horizons

Edited By Kate Grosser, Lauren McCarthy, Maureen A. Kilgour Copyright 2016
    214 Pages
    by Routledge

    214 Pages
    by Routledge

    Gender Equality and Responsible Business places gender equality at the heart of the responsible business agenda with the aim of contributing to CSR practice as well as research. Discussion about gender issues in the field of corporate responsibility has focused on workplace issues and corporate boards, which are important areas of work. However, the great benefit of exploring gender issues through a responsible business lens is that this requires us to also examine the wider gender impacts of business in the marketplace – for example, with regard to suppliers, supply chains, and consumers, and with respect to the communities where business operates, and the wider ecological environment – indeed throughout corporate value chains.Through contributions from practitioners in business and civil society, as well as academia, this book broadens the agenda, opening the field to new voices, and facilitates dialogue among and between practitioners and researchers. Contributions within the edited collection elucidate current practice, bring new perspectives, and help us to expand the field of responsible business with regard to gender equality, and beyond.

    Introduction; I: Broadening theoretical horizons; 1: The obfuscation of gender and feminism in CSR research and the academic community; 2: Corporate responsibility and gender in digital games; 3: Corporate social responsibility and the neoliberalization of feminism; 4: The business of assisted reproductive technologies; II: Insights from gender and responsible business practice; 5: From jumble sales to CSR partnerships?; 6: Corporate sexual responsibility; 7: Testing the business case for women’s empowerment; 8: Women in global supply chains; 9: Gender equality and diversity in the workplace; III: Case studies; 10: Valuing unpaid labour in community Fair Trade products; 11: Corporate CSR responses to homework and child labour in the Indian and Pakistan leather sector; 12: The wins of corporate gender equality politics

    Biography

    Kate Grosser, Lauren McCarthy, Maureen A. Kilgour