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Sustainable Fashion Leadership: The Female Phenomenon
The Sustainable fashion leadership: The female phenomenon dissertation addresses the inequities facing women throughout the global fashion industry and seeks to understand how the female leaders of today’s fashion sustainability movement mitigated workplace barriers are implementing practice change. The feminized industry’s 3.2 trillion annual revenue dollars are generated by the skills, creativity, and labor of a 60-million-person workforce; 80% are female. However, industry leadership remains the domain of men steering 97.3% of the top creative positions directing global product development activities. The female leadership phenomenon of the fashion sustainability movement, populated by women confronting the toxic status quo practices across supply chain activities, is enabling industry-wide change. Social role theory (SRT) serves as the study framework for examining women’s participation in an industry replete with gender barriers, biases, and social role expectations. The study reveals an industry’s imbalanced behaviors being challenged by a determined coalition of change agents seeking to advance the fashion industry’s sustainability engagement.
Data Briefs
Unraveling Gender and Race Bias in Fashion Careers: SNAAP 2015-2017 Survey Data Brief