Unpaid Care Work: The Unmentionable Issue?
April 29, 2014
In February I was invited by Oxfam to speak at a learning event for their Gender and Development Journal. Alongside NGOs and agencies from around the UK and the world, we spent two days discussing women and men’s unpaid care work, why it matters and how it can be made more central to development (and …
On shampooing and beauty: business against gender stereotypes?
February 17, 2014
Of the many big businesses involved in beauty products, I can only count a few who have started, more or less recently, to advertise their products by challenging gender stereotypes. Two companies in particular come to mind for recent campaigns and adverts. Pantene has released an advert in the Philippines for a movement (as named …
Doing the Business 2013 – Nalini by Day, Nancy by Night & The Phantom of the Operator
November 20, 2013
The following blog summarises Professor Laurie Cohen’s introduction to a double bill of films about working on the phones: Both films, in their own ways, deal with the strictly managed regimes, the disembodiment and the identity transformations that such work involves. Nalini by Day, Nancy by Night, produced and written by Sonali Gulati, in 2005 …
The beauty of the sustainability sector is that it recognises gender issues aren’t confined to within office walls
August 26, 2013
The business case for gender equality has really taken off. With the help of reports from McKinsey, Forum for the Future and Oxfam, the message to boost opportunities for women in business is finally getting out. Getting women into leadership positions and particularly on the board, is an especially hot topic. As recruitment firm Korn/Ferry …
Gender and Responsible Business – What’s the link?
June 10, 2013
Like many feminists, I have spent much of my life encouraging, supporting, and pressurizing policy-makers to advance gender equality through legislation, and through gender sensitive budgeting and policy development. To this end I have worked with government representatives in the UK, Australia, and internationally, and with numerous non-governmental organizations (NGOs). In the 1980s and 90s …
What the Feminists Thought: Taking CSR To New Audiences
March 19, 2013
InterGender.net is a site well worth looking at if you’re ‘into’ gender theories and feminist studies. It was just by chance that I stumbled across a doctoral course they were running called ‘Let’s Get Organised! Gender, Organisations, Policy, Power’ which called for doctoral researchers studying these concepts. A frenzied application later, and I was on …
Women’s Empowerment & CSR
March 8, 2013
“We want to see women in front of other women, talking to them”: Women’s Empowerment & CSR Four International Women’s Days’ ago, I was sitting in front of the KTWN women’s network committee; women who were forthright in their demands to be on an equal footing with the men in their community. We were in …
Still Avoiding Responsibility: Business and Body Image
January 9, 2013
A recent publication by Steve Biddulph, Raising Girls, has received plenty of press coverage this week, as he claims that girls are facing a barrage of toxic messages through advertisements, TV programs, and other media outlets. This comes at a time when resurgent feminist groups are demanding that the ‘traditional’ topless models on Page 3 …
The Business of Advocating for Gender Equality
April 9, 2012
Not content with just one publication on gender and CSR (see our other blog, Women Mean Business), last month saw the release of another collaboration, this time with Oxfam. ‘Gender Equality: It’s you business’ is number seven in Oxfam International’s Briefings for Business series. It offers practical advice on achieving gender equality in four key …
Women Mean Business
March 6, 2012
Tuesday the 6th March has been a very busy day for those of us working in the field of gender, sustainability and CSR. The UN Women’s Empowerment Principles annual seminar is playing out on a live webcast as I type, and Oxfam have launched a new Briefings for Business on gender equality. This morning I …
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