To what extent does gender affect people's patterns of labor force participation, educational preparation for work, occupations, hours of work (paid and unpaid) and earnings?

2014

Level: leicht

Sex-Segregated Labor Markets

Julie Nelson

University of Massachusetts

This course is an introduction to Development Economics and is concerned with how economists have sought to explain how the process of economic growth occurs, and how – or whether – that delivers improved well-being of people.

2015

Level: mittel

Development Economics

Sakiko Fukuda-Parr

The New School

Aim: to work out jointly with students a systematic perception of how the gender factor can impact on economic and demographic development. This course is pioneering: it is the first time that such a course has been introduced into the curriculum of a Russian higher educational institution with a focus on economics.

Level: mittel

Gender Economics

I. E. Kalabikhina

Lomonosov Moscow State University

This lecture course, which will be taught in English, will deal with gender issues in developing countries. After providing an overview of the gender differences in various aspects of welfare and economic life, the course will then tackle a number of specific issues.

Level: mittel

Gender and Development

Stephan Klasen and Teaching Assistants Bumi Camara and Merle Kreibaum

Department of Economics University of Göttingen

This graduate-level course examines issues related to women’s paid and unpaid work during a time of rapid integration of world markets. Students will analyze the role of government policy, unions, corporate responsibility, and social movements in raising women's wages, promoting equal opportunity, fighting discrimination in the workplace, and improving working conditions.

Level: mittel

Women and Work

Yana Rodgers

Rutgers University - School of Management and Labor Relations

Education policy seeks to ensure equality in access, equality within the classroom and in teaching- learning processes, and equality in outcomes. This course encourages students to assess and evaluate the extent to which these objectives are met in practice and the ways in which educational outcomes are shaped by, as well as alter, gendered social norms.

Level: leicht

Education, Gender and Development

Ratna Sudarshan

National University of National Planning and Administration, New Delhi

Getting to the policy discussion table is one of the objectives pursued by feminist scholars and advocates. However, some participants in this process have remarked that “you cannot get to the policy discussion table until you have proven that you can crunch the numbers.”

2006

Level: leicht

Statistics for Feminists

Yana Rodgers

Rutgers University, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies

What are the debates, feminist and otherwise, surrounding the phenomena of globalization? How does a gendered lens complicate our understandings of neoliberal globalization? How are particular labor regimes integral to global restructuring, and how are these gendered? What are the implications of global restructuring for bodies, identities, relations, and movements?

2014

Level: leicht

The Gender and Labor of Globalization

Clara Freeman

Emory University

In this class we will explore how globalization shapes and is shaped by gender norms with a particular focus on questions related to ‘work,’ mobility and well-being.

2015

Level: leicht

Gender and Globalization

Prof. Jennifer Olmsted

Drew University - Dept. of Economics

The goal of the course is to deepen students’ understanding of the Latin American development experience by viewing it through a gender lens.

2014

Level: mittel

Gender in Latin American Development

Prof. Carmen Diana Deere

University of Florida

For many social critics "globalization" is a signpost of “late-capitalism” with the rise of multinational corporations, mass consumption and the multidirectional flows of capital, labor, media, communication, ideologies and social movements across national borders. Feminist analyses of globalization and the gendered and sexualized permutations of these phenomena offer a critical stance for theorizing these processes, and for studying their complex articulations across time and space.

Level: mittel

Feminist Inroads in Epistemology, Method, and Theory

Carla Freeman

Emory University

Organisationen sind die mächtigen Akteure der Moderne. Organisationen sind Orte normaler moralischer Katastrophen. Organisationen sind Moralverdrängungsmaschinen. Organisationen sind Legitimationsfabriken. Wie ist das möglich? Wie geht das? Was tun?

2010

Level: mittel

Organisation und Moral

Günther Ortmann

Velbrück Wissenschaft

eine Soziologie der Weltbeziehung Wenn Beschleunigung das Problem ist dann ist Resonanz vielleicht die Lösung Dies ist auf die kürzestmögliche Formel gebracht die Kernthese des neuen Buches von Hartmut Rosa das als Gründungsdokument einer Soziologie des guten Lebens gelesen werden kann An seinem Anfang steht die Behauptung dass sich die …

2016

Level: mittel

Resonanz

Hartmut Rosa

Suhrkamp

"Dunkler Kontinent", "Elendsgebiet" oder "Rohstofflager der Welt", noch immer denken und reden wir über Afrika in Stereotypen. Und noch immer ist der Maßstab, mit dem wir den Zustand und die Perspektive des Kontinents beurteilen, das Entwicklungsmodell des Westens, selbst wenn sich dieses weltweit als höchst zerstörerisch erwiesen hat.

2019

Level: mittel

Afrotopia

Felwine Sarr

Matthes & Seitz Verlag