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EQD 7010 GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT ISSUES
Learning Outcomes At the end of the course, students are able to:
(1) Review theoretical and conceptual issues in gender and
development;
(2) Compare developing world experiences in gender
development; and
(3) Critically analyse development policies and
interventions policies on issues of gender equity and
gender-aware planning.
Synopsis of Course This course is designed to familiarise students with the
Contents main analytic debates in the field of gender and
development. The issues on closing the gender gap in
labour force, state-civil society relations and women’s
movements and state and governance are key concepts of
development that will be addressed in the course. Key
policy and conceptual debates will also be examined in
conjunction with how development policies and
interventions construct gender and how they impact
different gender differently. Through various methods of
learning in class, students will be given the knowledge to
evaluate the current situation and think of ways to improve
the situation by integrating the needs of women and men in
all aspect of development to achieve economic, political,
and social well-being of the people.
Assessment Continuous Assessment: 60%
Final Examination: 40%
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Main Reference (1) Lourdes Beneria, Gunseli Berik and Maria S. Floro, 2
Ed. (2016). Gender, Development and Globalization:
Economics as if All People Mattered. New York: Taylor
& Francis.
(2) Nalini Visvanathan, Lynn Duggan, Laurie Nisonoff and
Nan Wiegersma. Ed. (2011). The Women, Gender and
Development Reader. Halifax: Fernwood Publication.
(3) Janet Momsen. (2010). Gender and Development. New
York: Routledge.
(4) Sarkar, Aanchal (2006). Gender and development.
Pragun Publications.
(5) Parpart, J.L, Connelly, P. M., & Barriteau, V.E. (2000).
Theoretical perspectives on gender and development.
IDRC Books.
(6) Harrison, Elizabeth, Harrison, Elizabeth, Whitehead,
Ann. (2009). Gender Myths and Feminist Fables : The
Struggle for Interpretive Power in Gender and
Development. Wiley-Blackwell.
(7) Ester Boserup. (2007). Women’s role in economic
development. New York: Taylor & Francis.
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