Wikipedia:United States Education Program/Courses/Poverty, Gender, and Development (Diana Strassmann and Anne Chao)/Course description

Course description
This course explores the gender dimensions of poverty and development policies in local and global communities. Drawing from feminist economics research, the course considers how gender relations and the organization of domestic and market work influence gender equality. For example, human life requires not just market work but also the difficult-to-measure, interdependent, non-market work: breastfeeding, childcare, eldercare, and provision for personal needs. Those who work in markets still require that these activities be taken care of, either as their own extra work, by a family member, or a paid helper. The course considers how policies meant to bring about economic growth in the paid sector may exacerbate existing gender inequalities through unintended influences on such work in the unpaid sector. In exploring these issues, the course also considers connections with other inequalities, such as class, ethnicity, caste, race, and sexual orientation. Readings consider policies designed to improve standards of living and enhance capabilities of all people.

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