abstract: 'Unpaid care work, including child care, elder care, and housework, is

  unremunerated work essential to human survival and flourishing.

  Worldwide, women disproportionally carry out this work, impacting upon

  their ability to engage in other activities, such as education,

  employment, or leisure. Despite a growing number of businesses engaging

  in ``gendered CSR,{''''} in the form of women''s empowerment projects,

  attention to unpaid care work remains little discussed in the

  literature, despite its importance to sustainable development. Applying

  Diane Elson''s feminist economic framework for alleviating unpaid care

  work inequality to a case study of gendered CSR in Ghana, I find that at

  present unpaid care work is (a) unrecognised in business'' CSR, (b) may

  be both reduced or exacerbated by CSR efforts, and (c) remains

  conceptualised as relevant only to the private sphere, therefore,

  missing a unique opportunity for business to contribute to gender

  equality and sustainable development. Connecting unpaid care work and

  business responsibility contributes to a more expansive understanding of

  what CSR may be.'
affiliation: 'McCarthy, L (Corresponding Author), Royal Holloway Univ London, Sch
  Management, Egham TW20 0EX, Surrey, England.

  McCarthy, Lauren, Royal Holloway Univ London, Sch Management, CRIS, Egham, Surrey,
  England.'
author: McCarthy, Lauren
author-email: lauren.mccarthy@rhul.ac.uk
author_list:
- family: McCarthy
  given: Lauren
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1111/beer.12190
eissn: 1467-8608
files: []
issn: 0962-8770
journal: BUSINESS ETHICS-A EUROPEAN REVIEW
keywords-plus: 'CORPORATE SOCIAL-RESPONSIBILITY; WOMEN WORKERS; BUSINESS; EQUALITY;

  PARTICIPATION; EMPOWERMENT; MARKETS; ETHICS; CHAINS; CODES'
language: English
month: OCT
number: 4, SI
number-of-cited-references: '101'
orcid-numbers: McCarthy, Lauren/0000-0001-6299-4651
pages: 337-349
papis_id: 7de3850db45e55cfff33f98b3e7ae7d2
ref: Mccarthy2018thereis
times-cited: '13'
title: '``There is no time for rest″: Gendered CSR, sustainable development and the
  unpaid care work governance gap'
type: Article
unique-id: WOS:000450517400005
usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
usage-count-since-2013: '18'
volume: '27'
web-of-science-categories: Business; Ethics
year: '2018'