Code Course Description Semester Offered Prerequisite
ED75.01 Develop-ment : Principles and
Concepts
Gender, Enterprise and Organizations
Gender Rural Livelihoods and
Sustainable Development
Gender, Culture and Human Development
Gender Analysis and Gender Responsive Development Planning
In the recent decades of economic develop-ment and continued environdevelop-mental degrada-tion, gender and development studies have become important. This course provides an overview of gender and development as an academic field and how gender relations and advancement of women have become a major concern in development programs.
Women in many parts of Asia are managers of the household economy, as well as the major force behind what are being called micro-enter-prise and the informal sector. The role of wom-en in the managemwom-ent of large-scale industrial enterprises, whether in the government or cor-porate sectors, is also growing. The course is designed to analyze gender aspects in micro- and large enterprises/organizations, as well as women’s roles and positions in in value chain and cross-border trade under globalization.
This course is designed to acquaint students with the wider processes of economic, politi-cal and cultural change in agrarian and natural resource use contexts; to apply concepts for a gender analysis of the impact of rural restruc-turing and environmental degradation on liveli-hoods; to provide useful analytical frameworks integrating gender, rural development and nat-ural resource use and management for devel-opment policy and planning.
Anthropological and historical accounts note that there is inequality between men and wom-en in terms of their social position in societ-ies. In the wake of globalization and economic development, this inequality is based on the premise that notions about gender and gender relations are embedded in culture and ideology, and are often used to either maintain a particu-lar order or to accompany social transition. The objective of the course is to stimulate critical perspectives on cross-cultural comparison on notions of gender and gender relations and their relevance to cultural practices that rein-force women’s subordination.
The course equips students with knowledge and skills on gender analysis in development project/program/ policy. This is a practical course that is targeted to students who are in-terested in working as gender specialists. The course introduces and critically assesses ex-isting frameworks and approaches for gender analysis in the field level and gender planning
August
Program
Field of Study — Gender and Development Studies (GDS)
Code Course Description Semester Offered Prerequisite
ED75.08
ED75.10
ED75.11
New Technologies, Industrialization and
Gender
Gender, Urbanization and Urban Management
Gender Politics, Civil Society and Human
Rights
Women’s entry into paid employment and par-ticipation in new industries has been phenom-enal in Asia, arguably the most economically globalised region today. At the same time, the past decade has also seen a decline in female labour force participation. New forms of em-ployment have emerged as industrial regimes restructure, adopting more complex and flexible production organizations and patterns of work.
The objective of the course is to analyze wom-en’s position as well as the role of new tech-nologies in various industrialization contexts, in order to provide the analytical background for the formulation of policies to promote the equal and safe participation of women in the industri-alization process.
Increasing urbanization and processes of glo-balization have gender-specific effects as well as are influenced by gender factors. This course provides an understanding and analyses of the processes and contradictory outcomes of urban-ization for women and men in Asian cities. It will also help students to locate spaces and opportu-nities for transformation in situations of gender in-equality in the context of growing urbanization and within urban management policies and programs.
Gender would not exist without power. Gender inequalities, identities and resistance are con-stituted and reshaped by power struggles for and against political institutions, and the norms they create. This course offers an examination of gender through power, contested in State institutions and the public sphere and sought through various legal instruments. It attempts to contextualize our knowledge of gender in its political past, underlining the important role the Nation-State, as an institution owning the means of coercion, has had in engendering spaces and identities while committing, con-doning, or suppressing gender-based violence.
In contrast, the course will examine the role of the women’s movement. Although politics re-mains highly influenced by the national inter-ests of the State and political elites traditionally made up of men, such civil society mobiliza-tion is reinventing gender discourse, realigning power struggles, and consequently the locus of political action.
InterSem
August
January
Instructor’s consent
Instructor’s consent
None
Program
Field of Study — Gender and Development Studies (GDS)
Code Course Description Semester Offered Prerequisite
ED75.9005
ED75.9006
ED75.9007
Selected Topic: Gender Migration and Human
Trafficking in Asia
Selected Topic:
Gender and Health
Selected Topic:
Gender and Develop-ment Economics
The course will take a gender approach to study-ing various forms of migration, exploitative mi-gration and trafficking in persons in Asia, includ-ing forced labor migration, sex slavery and other form of involuntary servitude. While sub-national forms of migration movements and trafficking will be addressed, we will focus on cross-border mi-gration, exploitative migration and trafficking as such movement in persons has increased rap-idly while States remain uncoordinated in their response. Migration is both an outcome and a cause of vulnerabilities. Those who are forced into such trades are often victims of traffickers and State authorities who consider them illegal aliens. Women tend to be particularly vulnerable to involuntary servitude and trafficking and the gender division of labor resulting from migration results usually in more abuse and less protection by labor and immigration laws.
In Asia as in other parts of the world there is growing awareness that men and women differ in health status and health utilization and have different health needs. Still, health systems continue to fail to take these differences into consideration in designing services, allocating resources and setting strategic priorities. Too little is also done to address those power rela-tions in society that generate and keep in stand health inequities. The purpose of this course is to foster understanding of men’s and women’s health-illness processes and the social and biological determinants of gender inequities in health. A related objective is to stimulate think-ing on gender-inclusive health care systems and policies. Particular attention will be devoted to the specific socio-political contexts in which health systems are embedded, with a special focus on Southeast Asia.
This course exposes students to feminist cri-tique on economic development theories and approaches, questioning top-down, growth-oriented development which is over dependent on Western/modern technology. Students will learn how the gender-blind aspects of exist-ing development processes and technological invention and promotion has generated dis-equilibrium in society; hence, adversely effect women and the less advantaged, including chil-dren. This course will help students to develop a Gender Lens that enable them to understand the complexity of social and economic change which is essential to work for sustainable de-velopment.
January
January
August
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