Gender equality and responsible business : expanding CSR horizons /
edited by Kate Grosser, Lauren McCarthy and Maureen A. Kilgour.
- viii, 204 pages : illustrations, portraits
Introduction / Part I: broadening theoretical horizons 1. The obfuscation of gender and feminism in CSR research and the academic community: an essay / 2. Corporate responsibility and gender in digital games / 3. Corporate social responsibility and the neoliberalization of feminism / 4. The business of assisted reproductive technologies: a research agenda / Part II: insights from gender and responsible business practice 5. From jumble sales to CSR partnerships?: raising funds to end domestic and sexual violence in the UK / 6. Corporate sexual responsibility: how companies can act against the purchasing of sex / 7. Testing the business case for women's empowerment: new evidence from two base-of-the-pyramid businesses in Bangladesh / Women in global supply chains: campaigning for change / Gender equality and diversity in the workplace: a partnership between CSR and HRM / Part III: case studies 10. Valuing unpaid labour in community Fair Trade products: a case study of the contract between The Body Shop International and a Nicaraguan sesame cooperative / 11. Corporate CSR responses to homework and child labour in the Indian and Pakistan leather sector / 12. The wins of corporate gender equality politics: Coca-Cola and female microentrepreneurship in South Africa / Sofie Tornhill. Kate Grosser, Lauren McCarthy, and Maureen Kilgour. Laura J. Spence. Thorsten Busch, Florence Chee and Alison Harvey. Elizabeth Prügl. Lucia Cervi. Nicola Harwin. Charlotte Holgersson and Stéphanie Thögersen. Alex Roscoe. Erinch Sahan. Harshakumari Sarvaiya and Gabriel Eweje. Felicity Butler and Catherine Hoskyns. Annie Delaney, Rosaria Burchielli and Jane Tate.
"This book 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." --