Welcome to Women and Work,
a course that explores the processes, ideas, issues and events that
shape women’s paid and unpaid work in the U.S., Puerto Rico and around
the world. Too often women’s work is invisible and undervalued, creating
bias in our knowledge of history, geography, economics, politics, and
social change. By developing students’ capacity to contextualize
specific workplace problems, within larger international gender-related
trends in ideologies, industries, and initiatives taken by labor/
women’s/ resistance movements, this course seeks to increase students’
awareness of their shared personal and social responsibility to foster
gender equality in both the workplace and the household. The
information and concepts you learn in this course will help you to have a
more balanced view of women’s work. In addition, the course is designed
to help students understand the impact of gender on work as you build
careers, families, and communities. It also studies contemporary issues
and problems facing women in roles as organizational leaders and
managers. It is appropriate for both women and men
- Professor: Maritza Y Soto Garcia