COURSE UNIT TITLE

: GENDER EQUALITY AND WOMAN IN THE WORKING LIFE

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
CEK 4040 GENDER EQUALITY AND WOMAN IN THE WORKING LIFE ELECTIVE 3 0 0 5

Offered By

Labour Economics and Industrial Relations

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR HATICE ŞEBNEM SEÇER

Offered to

Labour Economics and Industrial Relations
Labour Economics and Industrial Relations

Course Objective

The objective of this course is to bring a gender equality perspective to the role of working women in Turkey and to evaluate the legislative regulation and practices which enables the gender equality in working life in Turkey and in the World.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Being able to define the concept of gender equality
2   Being able to have an information of historical development of equality policies
3   Being able to analyze the policies that enables the gender equality in national and international level
4   Being able to analyze the position of woman in working life in terms of gender equality
5   Being able to bring forward some proposals that enables gender equality for woman in working life

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Basic Concepts
2 Working Woman and Gender
3 The historical development of gender equality in the world
4 The historical development of gender equality in Turkey
5 The legislative regulations that enables gender equality
6 The institutional mechanisms that enables gender equality
7 Gender equality in social processes: Education, Health, Politics, Economics
8 Midterm exam
9 Midterm exam
10 Gender equality in terms of employment participation of women
11 Gender equality in terms of wage and other working conditions
12 Gender equality in terms of career opportunities of working woman
13 Work-life balance of working woman and gendered approaches
14 Overall evaluation

Recomended or Required Reading

Zehra Y. Dökmen; Toplumsal Cinsiyet Sosyal Psikolojik Açıklamalar, Remzi Kitabevi, 2010.

Türkiye de Toplumsal Cinsiyet Çalışmaları, Koç Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2010.

Olca Sürgevil Dalkılıç (Edt.); ÇalışAnne Kadın Akademisyenlerin Kaleminden Çalışma Yaşamında Annelik, Nobel Akademik Yayıncılık, 2015.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

- Participation
- Presentation
- Exams

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 MTEG MIDTERM GRADE MTEG * 1
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE MTEG * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTEG * 0.40 + RST * 0.60


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

0 (232) 301 03 57
sebnem.secer@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Çarşamba 14:00-15:00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 12 3 36
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 6 72
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Preparation for midterm exam 1 5 5
Final 1 1 1
Midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 125

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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CONTACT INFORMATION
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