Chiquita, women banana workers and structural inequalities
- Categories
- Article/Artikel
- Magazine Title
- Journal of Corporate Citizenship (JCC)
- Magazine Year
- 2006
- Magazine Number
- 21
- Creator
- Prieto-Carrón, Marina
- Shelfmark
- map: Latijns-Amerika 2006
- Thesaurus
- arbeid, gender, gelijke behandeling, seksuele intimidatie, loopbanen, zwangerschappen, kinderopvang, arbeidsters, Latijns-Amerika
- Description
- Chiquita's corporate social responsibility (CSR) policy has its voluntary code of conduct, which company-owned plantations and independent producers must implement. With regard to gender issues, the Chiquita code does address a number of issues that are important to women such as forbidding all forms of discrimination, an equal opportunity provision and sexual harassment but it does not make reference, for example, to promotion of women, maternity rights and childcare. To some extent this reflects the fact that codes are designed to ensure equal treatment of men and women and not the issues that affect women because of their reproductive and societal role.