KGS122 Women and the Workplace

This course offers an introductory perspective to Gender Studies that focuses on women’s/men’s work whether it be paid, unpaid, formal and informal, rural and urban. The course also offers students an opportunity to analyze feminist movements and their impact on women’s work in Africa in general and specifically Zimbabwe. The aim of this course is to introduce to students broad concepts of women’s and men’s work and how women are still exploited as well as discuss strategies for empowerment. The following are the course objectives;
• Understand how Gender Studies as a discipline developed and its value in contemporary society.
• Apply the fundamental perspectives in Gender Studies to solving and addressing everyday life social problems and issues.
• Understand the role of Gender Studies in society, and in particular, its function as a science and tool for advocacy and social change.