Gender differences in professional social responsibility: Are women more responsible at work than men?

Introduction: There is overwhelming evidence that companies with women on their boards of directors have higher levels of Corporate Social Responsibility. The relation between professional women and collective or organisational responsibility has been widely studied. However, to date there has been little research into the individual attitudes of women towards social responsibility. The purpose of this study is to analyse the differences in attitudes towards social responsibility between men and women in their professional life. Methods: A study sample (N = 524; 347 women; M edad = 37) was assembled using the LinkedIn social media platform and participants, after providing their informed consent, were asked to answer the Professional Social Responsibility Questionnaire. Results: The results showed significant differences in Professional Social Responsibility between men and women, with moderate effect (t (522) = 2.078; p = 0.038; η 2 = 0.191), in favour of women. The women participants scored higher in the dimensions Discovery of Personal Values (t (522) = 2.342; p = 0.020; η 2 = 0.216) and Social Awareness (t (522) = 2.179; p = 0.030; η 2 = 0.201), both with representative effect sizes. Discussion: These results suggest that the greater commitment to Corporate Social Responsibility of companies with women on their boards of directors is due, in part, to the greater individual or personal social responsibility of women. Higher levels of Discovery of Personal Values and Social Awareness amongst women may also result in better decision-making, ultimately accruing to the benefit of the company in terms of its financial results and reputation.

[Two approches to vulnerability: Bostrom's transhumanism and an anthropology focused on the human being]. / Dos formas de entender la vulnerabilidad: transhumanismo de Bostrom y antropología centrada en la persona.

The human being experiences in the depths of his being a longing for fulfilment. However, pain, disease and death accompany their existence. Transhumanism tries to overcome the limits of man through all a technological scientific development and ventures to predict the definitive triumph over death. In this study, we will analyse the meaning of vulnerability, limits, consciousness of finitude and death for both transhumanism and an anthropology focused on the human being. Transhumanism and this anthropology coincide in the desire to conquer death. The understanding of the concepts studied and the means to save humanity that are proposed differ in both approaches. We understand that in transhumanism there is a reductionism of the definition of person and therefore of the solution that is offered to respond to the deep longing inscribed each human being.