Women and the Economy
University of Saskatchewan, 2015
This syllabus was originally taught in Winter 2015
Instructor: Dr. Cristina Echevarria
Purpose of the Course
An examination of women's changing economic roles. Includes an analysis of labour force participation, wage inequality, gender differences in education, intra-household distribution of resources, economics of reproduction, and how technological change affects women.
Text
- F.D. Blau, M.A. Ferber and A.E. Winkler. The Economics of Women, Men and Work. Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall, 2014. (Referred in the outline as BFW)
Outline
0 - Why a course on women in the economy?
- BFW. Chapter 1.
1 - The family as an economic unit
- BFW. Chapter 3.
2 - The value of household production
- M. Waring. If Women Counted: A New Feminist Economics. New York: HarperCollins, 1988. Chapter 11.
- B. Bergmann. The Economic Emergence of Women. New York: Basic Books, 1988. Chapter 9.
3 - The economics of reproduction: boys and girls.
- G. Becker. A Treatise on the Family. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1991. Chapter 5.
- W.K. Bryant. The Economic Organization of the Household. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Chapter 7.
4 - Intra-household distribution of resources
- A. Sen. "Gender and Cooperative Conáicts" in I. Tinker (ed) Persistent Inequalities. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.
5 - Changing family structure
- BFW. Chapters 13 and 14
- S. McLanahan and G. Sandefur. Growing up with a Single Parent: What Hurts, What Helps. Cambrige, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994. Chapters 1 and 8.
- A. Milan, L-A. Keown and C. Robles. "Families, Living Arrangements and Unpaid Work" in Women in Canada: A Gender-based Statistical Report. Statistics Canada, 2012. http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/89-503-x/2010001/article/11387-eng.htm http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/89-503-x/2010001/article/11546-eng.htm
C - LABOUR MARKET PARTICIPATION
6 - Labour market participation
- BFW. Chapters 5 and 6.
- V. Ferrao. "Paid work." in Women in Canada: A Gender-based Statistical Report. Statistics Canada, 2012. http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/89-503-x/2010001/article/11387-eng.htm
7 - Wages and occupations
- BFW. Chapter 7.
- C. Williams. "Economic Well-being." in Women in Canada: A Gender-based Statistical Report. Statistics Canada, 2012. http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/89-503-x/2010001/article/11388-eng.htm
D - INEQUALITY IN THE LABOUR MARKET
8 - Human capital theory
- BFW. Chapters 8 and 9.
- M. Turcotte. "Women and Education." in Women in Canada: A Gender-based Statistical Report. Statistics Canada, 2012. http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/89-503-x/2010001/article/11542-eng.htm
9 - Discrimination
- BFW. Chapters 10 and 11.
10 - Labour issues: Unemployment, unions and part-time jobs
- BFW, Chapter 7.
- V. Ferrao. "Paid work." in Women in Canada: A Gender-based Statistical Report. Statistics Canada, 2012. http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/89-503-x/2010001/article/11387-eng.htm
E - INTERNATIONAL COMPARISONS
11 - Developed countries
- BWF. Chapter 16 from p. 355.
- BFW. Chapter 17 and 18.
12 - Developing countries
- BFW. Chapter 17 and 18.
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United Nations. The World's Women 2010: Trends and Statistics. New York: United Nations, 2001. Executive summary. http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/Worldswomen/WW2010pub.htm
13 - Economic development and gender differences
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