Sexual Harassment, Sexual Violence and CSR: Radical Feminist Theory and a Human Rights Perspective

This paper extends Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) scholarship to focus on issues of sexual harassment and sexual violence. Despite a significant body of work on gender and CSR from a variety of feminist perspectives, long-standing evidence of sexual harassment and sexual violence in business,...

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Published in:Journal of business ethics 2022-05, Vol.177 (2), p.217-232
Main Authors: Grosser, Kate, Tyler, Meagan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Business
Business and Management
Business Ethics
Corporate responsibility
Education
Equality
Ethics
Feminism
Feminist theory
Gender inequality
Human rights
Management
Original Paper
Philosophy
Quality of Life Research
Scholarship
Sex crimes
Sexual harassment
Sexual violence
Social responsibility
Value chain
Violence
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Summary:This paper extends Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) scholarship to focus on issues of sexual harassment and sexual violence. Despite a significant body of work on gender and CSR from a variety of feminist perspectives, long-standing evidence of sexual harassment and sexual violence in business, particularly in global value chains, and the rise of the #MeToo movement, there has been little scholarship focused specifically on these issues in the context of CSR. Our conceptual paper addresses this gap in the literature through two key contributions. First, we extend the theoretical base of CSR scholarship by drawing upon and explicating radical feminist theory, a resource that has been underutilized in the field to date. This theoretical perspective is well placed to offer insights around the issues of sexual harassment and sexual violence, and to explain the centrality of these concerns to the gender equality agenda in business and in CSR. Second, building upon insights from radical feminism, and from research on CSR and human rights, we explicate a business and human rights approach to sexual harassment, sexual violence and CSR. We point to ways in which this approach might be more effective in addressing these issues than previously adopted strategies and suggest directions for future research arising from our analysis.
ISSN:0167-4544
1573-0697
DOI:10.1007/s10551-020-04724-w