Gender equality: a tool for legitimacy in the fast fashion industry

Miotto, Giorgia; Alejandre, Sandra Vilajoana

doi:10.3926/hdbr.244

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“…Thus, these crucial factors help translate women's autonomy in improving the green economy globally. Finally, previous studies evaluated the United Nations SDG-5 with different socio-economic factors [24][25][26][27][28]. These studies showed that gender equality is vital to achieving food security, sustainable outcomes, economic growth, political decisions, and poverty reduction.…”

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confidence: 99%

Technowomen: Women’s Autonomy and Its Impact on Environmental Quality

Mujeed

Jabeen

et al. 2021

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The role of women in economic development and the global environment is vital for progressing them towards the United Nations sustainable development goal (SDG-5) that emphasized the need to empower women in every walk of life. The study examines women’s autonomy in the sustainable development agenda under China’s open innovation system from 1975 to 2019. The study employed an autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model, vector autoregressive (VAR) Granger causality, and innovation accounting matrix to estimate parameters. The existing data are summarized and collated in the context of China to explain as a correlational study. The results show that women’s autonomy moderated with technology spills over to decrease greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and substantiate the hump-shaped relationship between them. The increased spending on research and development (R&D) activities, patent publications, and renewable energy consumption empowers women to be equipped with the latest sustainable technologies to improve environmental quality. The pollution haven hypothesis verifies a given country, where trade liberalization policies tend to increase polluting industries to set up their plants that engaged in dirty production that exacerbate GHG emissions. The causality estimates confirmed that technological innovations and renewable energy consumption leads to women’s autonomy. In contrast, females’ share in the labor force participation rate leads to an increase in renewable energy consumption. Thus, it is evident that there is a positive role of women in the country’s sustainable development.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Technowomen: Women’s Autonomy and Its Impact on Environmental Quality

Mujeed

Jabeen

et al. 2021

Sustainability

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“…The categories of the codes were defined and selected taking into consideration the items included in the following sources: "SDG 5", indicators (UN Global Compact, n.d.); "Gender-related Development Index", "Development Index and Gender Empowerment Measure" and the "Gender Gap Index" (GGI) prepared by the World Economic Forum (2020). Likewise, the items used in Demetriades (2007), and previous researches on gender equality such as: Dijkstra and Hanmer (2000); Furlotti et al, (2019); Galbreath (2018); and Miotto and Vilajoana-Alejandre (2019). These indicators are the benchmark for measuring and evaluating changes and are usually numbers, facts, opinions, etc.…”

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“…We used the CADQAS software Atlas.ti to perform the analysis of the content and systematize the data (Raigada, 2002;Miotto & Vilajoana-Alejandre, 2019).…”

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“…The vast majority of the gender equality studies have focused on the composition of the boards of directors (Furlotti, Mazza, Tibiletti, & Triani, 2019;Hillman, 2015;Figueroa-Domecq, Palomo, Flecha-Barrio, & Segovia-Pérez, 2020) or of the organs of power of organizations (Grown, Addison, & Tarp, 2016). It has also been studied in various sectors such as the polluting industry (Wei, et al, 2017), fashion (Miotto & Vilajoana-Alejandre, 2019), medicine (Coe, Wiley, & Bekker, 2019), Education (Hazelkorn, 2018), prestigious business schools (Miotto, Polo López, & Rom Rodríguez, 2019), etc.…”

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The progress of Corporate Social Responsibility from a Gender perspective through the Change Management

Díaz-Iglesias¹,

Blanco‐González²,

Orden‐Cruz³

2021

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In recent years, one of the main priorities of companies has been to adapt their business activity and commercial strategy to be aligned with the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) established by the United Nations, in its “2030 Agenda”. To overcome this challenge, companies develop and implement Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) strategies. One of the objectives that have generated the most interest is Goal 5 dedicated to promoting gender equality. This study analyzes the gender equality evolution in companies as part of CSR through Change Management (CM). To do this, a longitudinal study was carried in the last ten years with an analysis of the content of various reports from four of the most important banks in Spain. The results corroborate the growing interest of the largest Spanish financial institutions in gender equality. Being women's access to employment, salary gap information, and the presence of women on the board of directors a priority. Likewise, the CM appears as a lever for the achievement of the SDGs by the entities, gaining relevance in recent years, and being linked to the strategic approach and business objectives for the development of CSR.

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“…Legitimacy theories recognise CSR communication practices as a method to reduce the gap of information between managers and stakeholders, so firms need to invest in it to establish trust (El-Bassiouny et al, 2018). One of the main communication tools that companies use for corporate legitimacy are sustainability reports (Miotto & Vilajoana-Alejandre, 2019). In the same way, legitimacy may affect the decision of managers as to whether to implement sustainability in an organisation (Thomas & Lamm, 2012).…”

Section: Journal Of Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%