ABSTRACT
In June, the 18th Global Summit of Women was held in Vietnam. In the Opening Address, Irene Navidad focused on how women have the ability to run businesses successfully. Professor Marshall attributes the lack of shaping power by women in corporate social responsibility (CSR) to the fact that women remain at the margins of CSR leadership. She cites Vandana Shiva and the late Anita Roddick as examples of well-known women who have used raw messages to challenge gender power dynamics. In describing the state of CSR and gender equality in the EU, Dr Irmgard Schultz, cofounder of the Institute for Social-Ecological Research, states: ‘the potential of CSR to promote EU policy goals for gender equality is hardly recognised by the public’. The lack of attention paid to gender issues in the corporate world was highlighted by the main CSR-relevant news-making study of the quarter: the IBM report Global CEO Study: The Enterprise of the Future.
