Gender and work, 7.5 credits
Required Knowledge
To be admitted to the course applicants must have completed three semesters of full time studies, equivalent to 90 ECTS, of which at least 15 ECTS must be an independent project or four semesters of full time studies equivalent to 120 ECTS.
English proficiency equivalent to English A from Swedish Upper secondary education.
Form of instruction
The course is a full time on-line course in English. The course is taught entirely through an electronic Learning Management System where the student takes part in lectures, mandatory assignments and other learning activities. The studies are characterized by a high degree of independent and active search for knowledge, and critical reflection, both individually and in groups.
Examination modes
The course will be examined successively through active participation in seminars, and through individual oral, and written examinations. The examination consists of a written assignment. For the course as a whole, the following grades are given: Fail (U), Pass (G) and Pass with distinction (VG). In order to be awarded Pass for the entire course, it is necessary that all examinations and all compulsory teaching sessions have been passedA re-sit examination can be offered at the earliest ten days and at the latest three months after publishing information about the first examination. One more examination will be offered within the next year. A student who has passed the examination is not eligible for a new examination to raise grades. The option of a re-examination based on the original course syllabus will be available for at least two years after a student registered for the course. All in all, a student is given five chances of fulfilling the course examination. A student has the right to change examiner after failing two examinations for a course module, unless there are strong arguments against this
Literature
Valid from: 2020 week 27
Acker Joan
Inequality regimes: gender, class, and race in organizations.
Included in:
Gender & society[Elektronisk resurs]b published in association with Sociologists for Women in Society
Thousand Oaks, Ca :
Sage :
2000- :
20 :
441-464 pages
Mandatory
Reading instructions: https://doi.org/10.1177/0891243206289499
Anderson Bridget
Just another job? Paying for domestic work
Included in:
Gender and development
[Oxford] :
Oxfam :
1996- :
25-33 pages
Mandatory
“ The claim of economic citizenship: the concept of equality in a historical context
Carlsson Wetterberg Christina, Melby Kari
Included in:
Gender equality and welfare politics in Scandinavia
Bristol :
Policy :
2008 :
xi, 244 s. :
43-62 pages
Mandatory
Reading instructions: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/umeaub-ebooks/detail.action?docID=419263
Off the Record: Reconstructing Women's Labor Force Participation in the European Past
Humphries Jane, Sarasúa Carmen
Included in:
Feminist economics.
London :
Routledge :
1995- :
39-67 pages
Mandatory
Care, Gender and Migration: Towards a Theory of Transnational Domestic Work Migration in Europe
Lutz Helma, Palenga-Möllenbeck Ewa
Included in:
Journal of contemporary European studies..
Abingdon (Taylor&Francis Ltd, 4 Park Sq., Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN) :
Carfax :
003- :
v. : 25 cm. :
349-364 pages
Mandatory
Beyond the Global Care Chain: Boundaries, Institutions and Ethics of Care
Nguyen Minh T. N., Zavoretti Roberta, Tronto Joan
Included in:
Ethics & social welfare
2007- :
199-212 pages
Mandatory
Odih Pamela.
Gender and work in capitalist economies
Maidenhead :
Open University Press :
2007 :
xviii, 205 p. :
Mandatory
Reading instructions: http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/umeaub-ebooks/detail.action?docID=332686
Pp. 2-24, 81 -97 (“Introduction" + Chap. 4:"Gender and identity in Modern Times")
Parreñas Rhacel Salazar
The reproductive labour of migrant workers.
Included in:
Global networks
Oxford :
Blackwell :
2001- :
12(2) :
269-275 pages
Mandatory
The forest and the trees: Industrialization, demographic change, and the ongoing gender revolution in Sweden and the United States, 1870–2010
Stanfors Maria, Goldscheider Frances
Included in:
Demographic Research
2007- :
36 :
173–226 pages
Mandatory
Sugiman Pamela Haruchiyo
Labour's Dilemma: The Gender Politics of Auto Workers in Canada, 1937-1979
University of Toronto Press :
Mandatory
Reading instructions: https://toronto-degruyter-com.proxy.ub.umu.se/view/title/519464
pp. 1-26. “Introduction" + Chapter 1: “A gendered setting"
Tornhill Sofie
Capital Visions: Scripting Progress and Work in Nicaraguan Free-Trade Zones
Included in:
Latin American perspectives
Berverly Hills, Calif. :
Sage :
1974- :
38 :
74-92 pages
Mandatory
Williams Fiona
Migration and Care: Themes, Concepts and Challenges
Included in:
Social policy and society :[Elektronisk resurs]b a journal of the Social Policy Association.
Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press :
2002- :
9 :
385-396 pages
Mandatory