GNDR 2081 - Gender and Public Power

1. Gender differences in access to and exercise of public power across business, government, and non-profit sectors
2. Theories of public power
3. Feminist perspectives on power
4. Intersectional analyses of power in the public sphere
5. Change over time in women¿s access to public power
6. Success and failures incorporating women as full citizens and persons in the public sphere
7. The role of women¿s grassroots activism in changing the distribution of power along gender lines
8. Analysis of gender in public power applied to case studies, to be selected from issues such as gender-based violence, immigration, economics, education, employment, family, health care, poverty, reproductive rights, sexual harassment, among others
9. Gendered analysis of social and cultural constructions of power
10. The impact of female officials in business, the non-profit, and government sectors; the feminization of leadership

1. describe gender differences in participation in three sites of public power (business, government, the non-profit sector).
2. analyze social and cultural assumptions about power in terms of gender.
3. apply theories of public power to analyze specific issues.
4. articulate changes over time in men¿s and women¿s relative status regarding access to and exercise of public power.
5. articulate the roles of grassroots collective action, legislation, the judiciary, and the electorate in effecting changes in distributive power across gender lines.
6. articulate theories of public power and what a gendered analysis of public power involves.
7. evaluate how feminist scholarship changes traditional interpretations of public power.

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