Gender Equality Policies

Recommended Prerequisites

General access requisites to the master programme apply.

Teaching Methods

The classes will combine lectures on the topics of the course with participatory methods promoting student’s autonomy and the development of their generic analytical and communicational skills.

Learning Outcomes

At the end of the course students should be able: 1. to identify the different types of gender equality policies; 2. to identify the factors reproducing inequalities between men and women and the strategies to eradicate them; 3. to evaluate any public policy from the point of view of gender equality; 4. to gain capacities, skills and knowledge that favour the building of more equal gender relations in the social contexts in which they are located.

At the level of generic competencies it is stimulated the understanding of ideas, the capacity to mobilize the learned concepts and theories in the interpretation of reality, critical reading skills, capacities in expressing opinions and argumentation skills, team work and oral and written communication skills.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

The main objective of this curricular unit is the study of gender equality public policies both at the national and the European levels. Besides the acquaintance with these policies, we will look for the political philosophy which stands each one (statements and inferences). The programme includes: 1. Evolution of gender equality policies in Portugal and Europe; 2. Theoretical approaches of equality policies in the field of employment: equality of opportunities; positive actions; mainstreaming; 3. Main aspects of the mainstreaming as a strategy to promote equality of women and men: methods and phases (diagnosis; planning; implementation; monitoring; evaluation); 4. Methodology of gender analysis of public policies: levels and agents; methods, indicators and tools.

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Oral presentation: 25.0%
Synthesis work: 75.0%

Bibliography

BACCHI, Carol Lee — Analysing policy: what's the problem represented to be?. Pearson Education 2009.

CHANGING state feminism. In Outshoorn & Johanna Kantola (ed.) Palgrave Macmillan 2007. [BP 396 CHA].

FERREIRA, Virgínia — Para uma redefinição da cidadania : a sexualização dos direitos humanos. In Anabela Rodrigues [et al.]. Coimbra Editora 2005. [BP 342.7 CON].

KANTOLA, Johanna — Feminists theorize the state. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan 2006. [BP 396 KAN].

MAINSTREAMING gender, democratizing the state? In Shirin M. Rai. (ed). Transaction Publishers 2007. [BP 396 MAI].

PERISTA, Heloísa & Alexandra Silva — Impacto em função do género. CIDM 2005. [BP 396 POR].

POLITICS, gender, and concepts. In Gary Goertz & Amy G. Mazur (ed). Cambridge UP 2008.

RAPOSO, Vera — O poder de Eva. Livraria Almedina 2004. [BP 342.7 RAP].

SÜMER, Sevil — European gender regimes and policies. Ashgate 2009.

Walby, Sylvia — Globalization & Inequalities – Complexity and Contested Modernities, Sage 2009.