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[ 929RASPGSPS10 ] SE (*)Gender and social policy

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Es ist eine neuere Version 2025W dieser LV im Curriculum Master's programme Comparative Social Policy and Welfare 2025W vorhanden.
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Workload Education level Study areas Responsible person Hours per week Coordinating university
4 ECTS M2 - Master's programme 2. year Social Science Bettina Leibetseder 2 hpw Johannes Kepler University Linz
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Original study plan Master's programme Joint Master's Programme in Comparative Social Policy and Welfare 2010W
Objectives (*)The course’s aim is to enable the students to critically reflect the interrelationship of social policy and gender. Focusing on contemporary development in the gender and social policy, the structural influence on women’s and men’s individual choices is discussed concerning society, employment and family in the field of social policy. Students will be equipped with the skills necessary for advanced research and understanding relation between gender and social policy: • Concept of gender • Social Policy and Gender • Employment and Gender • Family and Gender • EU-policies and gender mainstreaming • Intersectionality
Subject (*)Short introduction into gender theories, feminist critiques of social policy, (de)commodification, (de)familialization, care work, employment, gender mainstreaming and EU policy, intersectionality.
Criteria for evaluation (*)70% paper (15.000 signs) & 30% active participation

Methods (*)Introductory lectures during Intensive Program, afterwards discussion boards and tutoring supported by Moodle and individual studies of the theoretical literature and other sources of course.
Language  English
Changing subject? No
On-site course
Maximum number of participants 25
Assignment procedure Assignment according to priority