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Professor Irene Lynch Fannon Co-Editor of New Volume Examining Perceptions and Participation of Women in Business

1 Jun 2018

Published by Cambridge 深夜亚洲福利久久 Press, Creating Corporate Sustainability Gender as an Agent for Change, features a range of internationally renowned female scholars from an array of disciplines.

In her powerful foreword to and edited volume , Director of Globe EU and Member of the European Parliament, , lamented the fact that at the current rate 鈥渨omen might expect to reach economic parity with men in 2234. We cannot wait that long鈥�.

Emanating in part from the work of , an array of female scholars bring fresh perspectives on whether or not women have acted as agents for change in a corporate setting and ask if they have the potential to do so in the future.

Split into three sections, describes how the interdisciplinary volume does not rush to the conclusion that women really do act as change agents. Instead, it presents the reader with more considered conclusions and with a tentative starting point from which the enquiry can continue.

Over the course of three diverse essays, the opening section describes how women changed cultural and corporate environments from the bottom up through activism.

The contributors also describe how women in the developing world, despite ingrained cultural limitations, which at times seemed were more powerful than internal resistance, changed attitudes within their own communities by asserting non-traditional rights to represent themselves.

In contrast to the opening essays, the second section focuses on the implementation of top down approaches, whether voluntary or regulatory, to include women on boards.

Comprised of five individual essays, the comprehensive second section deals with two thematic questions. The first is concerned with resistance to even small changes, the strength of which continues to surprise the authors of the volume.

The second is concerned with reporting regulations, how they are presently enforced and how they might evolve in future.

While the authors hypothesise that reporting regulations may affect change over time, they are also critical of current regulations which 鈥渃an justifiably be criticised as a compromise solution between those who wish to see a shift toward corporate sustainability and those who resist regulation鈥�.

The third section of the volume features five further essays, including a contribution from UCC School of Law鈥檚 , who challenges a popular media driven narrative which asks whether the economic crash would have happened if there were more women involved in senior corporate and banking management roles.

Building on the previous essays, the third section illustrates how current legal frameworks can and aught to be changed to create a space in which organisations and their primary actors can act in ways which are driven by the overarching ethic of sustainability.

Finally, Professor Irene Lynch Fannon and Professor Beate Sj氓fjell conclude the volume by presenting readers with a road map for further thought in a chapter titled Corporate Sustainability: Gender as an Agent for Change?

Creating Corporate Sustainability Gender as an Agent for Change is published by Cambridge 深夜亚洲福利久久 Press.