The Gender theme fosters and furthers multi-disciplinary critical feminist engagement with the business and human rights agenda. We build on an understanding of organizations as ‘inequality regimes’ that frequently institutionalise and perpetuate gender and other forms of inequality across the globe.
Collaborating with researchers, as well as practitioners - in business, government and civil society - we aim to assess, and advance, the potential of the new business and human rights agenda to address gender equality, and intersectional oppression.
We work to develop the gender, business and human rights research field, and to critique and apply the United Nations (2019) recommendations on the ‘Gender dimensions of the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights’.
The Gender theme intersects with, and aims to contribute to, other themes of BHRIGHT through, for example, raising questions and highlighting research regarding the gendered nature of global business supply chains, climate change, health, technologies, and business operations in conflict-affected areas.
Researchers
Gender Theme Leader
Dr Kate Grosser
Gender Researchers
Sara Todt; Lisa Heap; Yingyi Luo; Emma Rae; Laura McVey; Saima Ahmad; Dr Elizabeth Shi; Dr Meagan Tyler; Associate Professor Shelley Marshall.
Gender, Business and Human Rights with Dr Kate Grosser
Dr Kate Grosser explains why gendered injustice worsening rather than improving
Why it helps companies to think of sexual harassment as a human rights issue
GBI Chair Andrea Shemberg discusses the advantages to companies of using a human rights lens to examine risks associated with sexual harassment.
Theme resources
- Grosser (2021), Gender, business and human rights: Academic activism as critical engagement in neoliberal times. Gender, Work and Organization. 28, 4:1624–1637.
- Grosser, K., and Tyler, M. (2021). Sexual harassment, sexual violence and CSR: Radical feminist theory and a human rights perspective. Journal of Business Ethics.
- McVey, L., Gurrieri, L. and Tyler, M. 2021. The structural oppression of women by markets: the continuum of sexual violence and the online pornography market. Journal of Marketing Management, 37(1-2), 40-67.
- GENMAC., 2021. Connecting DEI to explicit and implicit gendered workplace discrimination, harassment, and assault: a commentary on 2019 Marketing Climate Survey. Marketing Letters, 32, pp.341-347
- McVey, L., Tyler, M. & Gurrieri, L. (forthcoming). ‘Putting pornography on the marketing agenda: A radical feminist centring of harm for women’s marketplace inequality’ In P. MacLaran, L. Stevens, & O. Kravets (Eds). The Routledge Companion to Marketing & Feminism. Routledge
- Struggle and Resilience of Fashion Workers, Podcast from ANU Myanmar Update Conference, Sara Tödt
- Women workers in fashion supply chains are bearing the brunt of the economic consequences of the coronavirus pandemic. What can you do?, Sara Tödt and Annie Delaney (Acumen: CoBL Expert Opinion and Analysis Blog)
Projects
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