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Gender Equality and Responsible Business Expanding CSR Horizons Gender Equality and REsponsiblE Business Expanding CSR Horizons Edited by Kate Grosser, Lauren McCarthy and Maureen A. Kilgour New York London First published 2016 by Greenleaf Publishing Limited Published 2017 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017, USA Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business Copyright © 2016 Taylor & Francis The right of Kate Grosser, Lauren McCarthy and Maureen A. Kilgour to be identified as Editors of this Work has been asserted by them in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Cover by Sadie Gornall-Jones. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data: A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN-13: 978-1-78353-438-8 [pbk] ISBN-13: 978-1-78353-128-8 [hbk] We dedicate this book to all the tempered, and not so tempered radicals, both women and men, who continue to fight for gender equality at the business and society interface. Contents Acknowledgements ............................................. ix Introduction ................................................... 1 Kate Grosser, Lauren McCarthy and Maureen Kilgour Part I: Broadening theoretical horizons ............................. 15 1 The obfuscation of gender and feminism in CSR research and the academic community: An essay ................................. 16 Laura J. Spence 2 Corporate responsibility and gender in digital games .................. 31 Thorsten Busch, Florence Chee and Alison Harvey 3 Corporate social responsibility and the neoliberalization of feminism .................................................................. 46 Elisabeth Prügl 4 The business of assisted reproductive technologies: A research agenda .......................................................... 56 Lucia Cervi Part II: Insights from gender and responsible business practice .......................................................... 71 5 From jumble sales to CSR partnerships?: Raising funds to end domestic and sexual violence in the UK .......................... 72 Nicola Harwin viii Gender Equality and Responsible Business 6 Corporate sexual responsibility: How companies can act against the purchasing of sex ............................................. 87 Charlotte Holgersson and Stéphanie Thögersen 7 Testing the business case for women’s empowerment: New evidence from two base-of-the-pyramid businesses in Bangladesh ............................................................... 97 Alexa Roscoe 8 Women in global supply chains: Campaigning for change ............. 110 Erinch Sahan 9 Gender equality and diversity in the workplace: A partnership between CSR and HRM ................................... 135 Harshakumari Sarvaiya and Gabriel Eweje Part III: Case studies ...................................................... 153 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 ............ 154 Felicity Butler and Catherine Hoskyns 11 Corporate CSR responses to homework and child labour in the Indian and Pakistan leather sector .................................. 170 Annie Delaney, Rosaria Burchielli and Jane Tate 12 The wins of corporate gender equality politics: Coca-Cola and female microentrepreneurship in South Africa ..................... 185 Sofie Tornhill About the editors ................................................................ 203 Acknowledgements We would like to gratefully acknowledge the longstanding support for gender and corporate social responsibility research, and teaching, at the International Cen- tre for Corporate Social Responsibility (ICCSR), Nottingham University Business School, UK. Dating back to 2003, this extended to sponsoring and hosting the 2013 International Symposium on Gender and Responsible Business, from which the idea for this book emerged. In particular we would like to thank the ICCSR’s founding Director, Professor Jeremy Moon. Without his consistent enthusiasm and significant support for this area of research the gender and responsible busi- ness symposium would not have taken place, this field of research would not have developed so steadily, and this book may well not yet have materialized! We would also like to thank the many other academics and practitioners who contributed to making the 2013 ICCSR symposium such a success, including Professors Ed Free- man, Stephanie Barrientos, Laura Spence and Diane Elson. Beyond this event, our gratitude extends to the many researchers whose work makes this emerging field of scholarship so vibrant and interesting, and to the numerous CSR practitioners who are pioneering work on gender equality in a wide variety of contexts. In addition we would like to thank John Stuart, our original commissioning edi- tor at Greenleaf Publishing, and the editors who took over responsibility for our book following John’s departure, including Claire Jackson, Rebecca Macklin and Victoria Halliday. Finally, we would like to thank all our chapter authors for their unique contribu- tions, without which this book would, of course, not have been possible. Kate Grosser, Lauren McCarthy and Maureen Kilgour
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