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Dear All,

Please join us online on Tuesday, 7 May, at 4pm BST, for the second R:ETRO seminar of this term, hosted by the Oxford University Centre for Corporate Reputation.

Lauren Kaufmann (Darden School of Business) will be giving a paper entitled "Repoliticizing Rights: Gender, Development, and Impact Investing."

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 fulfill 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.

Click here to register.

I hope to see many of you there!

All the best,
Rita

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Rita Mota
Assistant Professor
ESADE Business School
Barcelona
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