About the event
The second of the Trinity term's R:ETRO - Reputation: Ethics, Trust, and Relationships at Oxford - seminar series.
Lauren Kaufmann, Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Darden School of Business, University of Virgina will be the guest speaker for a seminar being hosted by Alan Morrison, Professor of Law and Finance at Saïd Business School, and Rita Mota, International Research Fellow (IRF) at Saïd Business School and Assistant Professor at ESADE Business School, as part of the R:ETRO seminar series - Reputation: Ethics, Trust, and Relationships at Oxford.
Abstract:
A proliferation of human rights discourse in business policy, practice and academia has sought to establish human rights as an undeniable tool for claiming social justice within capitalism.
Yet, claiming justice for women through the logic of rights poses a paradox. In this project, we explore this paradox through analysis of gender lens investing (GLI), a tool of for-profit capital to address gender inequality. We interrogate, rather than assume, that the evocation of women’s human rights - within an industry seeking to fulfil women’s 'right to credit' - is the most appropriate tool for claiming gender justice in the context of development finance.
This project seeks to contribute to and advance the feminist business ethics scholarship on gender in the context of economic development.
