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 Academic Year: | 2016/7 |
| Owning Department/School: | Department of Social & Policy Sciences |
| Credits: | 6 [equivalent to 12 CATS credits] |
| Notional Study Hours: | 120 |
| Level: | Honours (FHEQ level 6) |
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| Assessment Summary: | ES 100% |
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| Description:
| Aims: The purpose of this unit is to develop students' ability to engage critically with the theoretical and practical issues around gendered dimensions of work in and outside the home, across formal and informal labour markets, and their implications for relative power, exploitation, and social change. The aims of this unit are to introduce students to: 1. The key economic and sociological theories and thinkers relating to studies in gender and work, with work broadly defined. 2. How the state, market, and family shape relative gender equality in different work domains. 3. The gender-work linkages across countries at all stages of economic development through the globalization of goods, services, laws, and ideas. 4. The ways in which "gender" intersects with other social categories such as class, ethnicity, or immigrant status to structure relative economic advantage or exploitation within and across national boundaries. 5. Different methodological approaches to researching gender and work within and across contexts, including comparative methods. 6. Keyword definitions of work, labour markets, the gender wage gap, gendered divisions of labour, occupational segregation, etc. Learning Outcomes: Students successfully completing the unit should be able to: 1. Demonstrate an understanding of how and why work across societies is gendered; 2. Discuss the ways in which gender intersects with other social categories across individual, national and global work domains to structure a variety of economic and power inequalities 3. Critically evaluate the role of employers in sustaining or ameliorating gender work hierarchies. 4. Critique original research to interrogate dominant explanations for persistent gender inequalities in paid and unpaid work; 5. Understand the role of policy, the state, and supranational organizations in promoting gender equality in paid and unpaid work over time and across affluent and developing countries; 6. Display an understanding and critically evaluate the potential economic, social or political levers for or barriers to greater gender equality across work domains and socio-political contexts. Skills: 1. To think creatively and analytically (F/A) 2. To communicate an argument (F/A) 3. To critically evaluate and assess research and evidence as well as a variety of other information (T/F) 4. To learn independently and be able to assess own learning needs (i.e. identify strengths and improve weaknesses in methods of learning and studying) (F) 5. To synthesise information from a number of sources in order to gain a coherent understanding (T/F/A) 6. To summarize an argument in abbreviated for (F/A) 7. Study & learning skills (note taking, avoiding plagiarism, using the library, gathering and using information from a range of good, academic-level sources, constructing a bibliography, referencing). 8. Basic ICT skills (word processing, presentation software, email, using the web for research, use of VLEs) 9. Interpersonal and communication skills, group skills (F) Content: 1. Human capital and social exchange models of work and employment 2. Equal pay, comparable worth, gender earnings inequalities 3. Paid and unpaid work, gendered divisions of household labour 4. Occupations, occupational segregation, and emotion work 5. Employer discrimination 6. State regulation of formal labour markets 7. Informal labour markets 8. Sex work 9. Global care chains 10. Revision: What instigates/sustains change? |
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SP30303 is Optional on the following programmes:Department of Social & Policy Sciences
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