Challenging Masculinity in CSR Disclosures: Silencing of Women’s Voices in Tanzania’s Mining Industry

Lauwo, Sarah

doi:10.1007/s10551-016-3047-4

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“…In this context, to date, the debate around CSR and its gendered implications has largely been limited to the experience of women in organizations (Bear et al, ; Bernardi & Threadgill, ; Rekker et al, ; Soares et al, ), rather than their interactive relationships with men and one another, where certain patterns of power relations are reproduced and valued. Thus, categorical thinking in the CSR and gender literature has ignored the dynamics of gender constructions; that is, CSR discourse is limited to addressing gendered power imbalances in masculine‐dominated corporations (except Lauwo, ). This article aims to complement the existing literature by proposing an alternative perspective that uses a gendered approach for understanding the construction of CSR with a focus on the social construction of multiple masculinities in an emerging economy.…”

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confidence: 99%

Constructing gender identity through masculinity in CSR reports: The South Korean case

Lee

Parpart

2018

Business Ethics: A Eur Rev

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Drawing on the themes of men and masculinity, this article examines texts in the corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports of local multinational enterprises (MNEs) in South Korea, an emerging economy. This article explores how Korean male hegemony is hidden and naturalized in CSR reporting. Focusing on the discursive construction of gender identity, we analyze how CSR reports portray gendered identities in ways that may foster gender inequality by examining how the texts reflect the inferior position of women and marginalized male workers in the workplace. We review 15 CSR reports from Korean MNEs as a primary data source for examining corporate policies and disclosure on gender‐equality issues in the workplace. We explore the inherently embedded meaning of CSR reports to evaluate the masculine tone of gender relations in these texts. To deepen our understanding, we retrieved the original text segments, coded them by using a categorical framework and revisited our data to critically examine our interpretation of the narrative structures that we argue reflect and reproduce certain discourses of masculinity, through the (in)visibility of women, the marginalization of women and (part‐time) men, and the silencing of their voices by the Korean male hegemony.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Constructing gender identity through masculinity in CSR reports: The South Korean case

Lee

Parpart

2018

Business Ethics: A Eur Rev

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“…Indeed, the public efforts at 'gender balance' are used as a rationale for resisting regulation and structural change. Lauwo's effort at radical poststructuralist feminist analysis arrives at the same conclusion-that talk of gender balance in the Tanzanian mining industry bears no significant result (Lauwo 2016).…”

Section: Gendered Impactsmentioning

confidence: 96%

“…Other scholars have researched the varied roles that women have played in the extractives sector in Africa, most often in informal mining, but some have also looked at women in the formal sector. For example, Lauwo (2016) presents an interesting post-structuralist analysis of the essentially masculine mining discourse, even when discussing gender balance, and then relates it to the poor performance of gender equality measures in the Tanzanian mining industry. This theme, of the disconnect between rhetoric and reality, occurs throughout the literature, and is observed from a number of theoretical perspectives.…”

Section: Gendered Impactsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The role of gender in the extractives industries

Macdonald¹

2017

WIDER Working Paper

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In recognizing that women's participation and gender equity is a precondition for the achievement of acceptable development outcomes, extractives industry companies are increasingly making public commitments to integrating gender equality, inclusion, and women's economic empowerment into aspects of their operations. This paper reviews recent literature on gender and the extractives industries and then considers the following questions that emerged from the scholarship. How is gender understood in the extractives sector and has this changed over time? What are the gendered impacts of the extractives industries? Are women passive victims of the sector rather than active participants or even resisters to industrial expansion? What is the nature of extractives-associated sex-work and gender-based violence in various settings? In addition, the paper presents available information on women's participation in the extractives industry, both formal and informal, and how these differ, and evaluates industry efforts towards achieving improved gender balance and equity in the sector.

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“…Fourth, freeing femininity from its relation to masculinity so that the feminine does not continue to be devalued, as in the case of female/feminine leadership (Pullen & Vachhani, ). Fifth, bringing forth ethno‐cultural cases that disrupt the dominance of western concepts of masculinity (Lauwo, ) and attending to global differences in the discursive and cultural production of masculinities and how they prevail and change.…”

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confidence: 99%