Academic Catalog

SOC526 ISSUES IN WOMENS WORK AND EMPLOYMENT

Course Code: 2320526
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): 3(3-0)
ECTS Credit: 8.0
Department: Sociology
Language of Instruction: English
Level of Study: Graduate
Course Coordinator: Prof.Dr. FATMA YILDIZ ECEVÝT
Offered Semester: Fall or Spring Semesters.

Course Content

This course aims to enable students to understand and discuss the problems regarding women´s work and employment. More specifically the course addresses issues related to women´s labor force participation, paid work, gender segregation and discrimination, unemployment, domestic labor and housework, part-time work, women´s self employment and women´s owned enterprises and effects of ICT on women´s work.