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Is Femvertising the New Greenwashing? Examining Corporate Commitment to Gender Equality

Journal of business ethics, 2022-05, Vol.177 (3), p.491-505 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

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Title:
Is Femvertising the New Greenwashing? Examining Corporate Commitment to Gender Equality
Author: Sterbenk, Yvette ; Champlin, Sara ; Windels, Kasey ; Shelton, Summer
Subjects: Advertisements ; Advertising ; Annual reports ; Awards ; Awards & honors ; Business and Management ; Business Ethics ; Companies ; Competitors ; Consumers ; Content analysis ; Corporate social responsibility ; Education ; Employees ; Empowerment ; Equality ; Ethics ; False information ; Gender equality ; Gender equity ; Gender inequality ; Greenwashing ; Institutionalization ; Institutionalized ; Leadership ; Management ; Original Paper ; Philosophy ; Quality of Life Research ; Race relations ; Social aspects ; Social networks ; Social responsibility ; Teams ; Washing ; Websites ; Winners ; Women
Is Part Of: Journal of business ethics, 2022, Vol.177 (3), p.491-505
Description: This study examined the potential for a new area of corporate social responsibility (CSR) washing: gender equality. Companies are increasingly recognized for advertisements promoting gender equality, termed “femvertisements.” However, it is unclear whether companies that win femvertising awards actually support women with an institutionalized approach to gender equality. A quantitative content analysis was performed assessing company leadership team listings, annual reports, CSR reports, and CSR websites of 61 US-based companies (31 award winners and 30 non-winning competitors) to compare the prevalence of internal and external gender-equality CSR activities of companies that have (versus have not) won femvertising awards. When controlling for number of employees and annual revenue, award-winning companies committed to more internal efforts that support women than non-award-winning companies. However, no significant differences were found in the number of external efforts or representation in female leadership between companies with and without award-winning femvertisements. Overall, a majority of award-winning companies (81%) engaged in less than ten of the possible 23 gender-equality CSR activities, suggesting these companies’ female empowerment commercials were often not in line with their broader CSR activities. While more research is needed in this area, we propose the term “fempower-washing” to describe CSR-washing in the context of gender equality.
Publisher: Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 0167-4544
EISSN: 1573-0697
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-021-04755-x
Source: ProQuest Central

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Is Femvertising the New Greenwashing? Examining Corporate Commitment to Gender Equality

The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V. part of Springer Nature 2021 ;The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V. part of Springer Nature 2021. ;ISSN: 0167-4544 ;EISSN: 1573-0697 ;DOI: 10.1007/s10551-021-04755-x

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