ABSTRACT
In 1999, secretary-general Kofi Annan issued a clarion call to private sector corporations around the world to voluntarily align their strategies and operations with a set of principles in support of human rights, labor standards, environmental sustainability, and anti-corruption. The ten principles of the global compact establishes a framework that combines the four categories of human rights, labor standards, environmental standards, and anti-corruption. The components of the framework have, in turn, influenced the development of multiple models and tools for corporate social responsibility and sustainability programs. Women play a key role at every level of the supply chain as workers, entrepreneurs, buyers, service providers, corporate managers, etc. The target gender equality principle of the implementation of enterprise development, supply chain, and marketing practices that empower women requires the support of women across the value chain in the communities where corporations operate.
