90-871 Policy and Gender Workshop

3 units, Carnegie Mellon University

This course will meet September 21, 2024 900 AM to 300 PM September 22, 2024 900 AM to 100 PM at the Heinz College Washington DC campus. Students are expected to attend in person. While other courses examine policies that disproportionately impact women, this micro course will look at an range of current policy issues and explore the previously underexamined gender aspects, and impacts, of these policies. Students will be exposed to research and various tools used to conduct gender analyses. Using a foundational understanding of gender analysis, students will review current policy proposals, analyze and report on how gender plays a role in the policy implementation, and make recommendations to improve the proposals so that they will achieve greater gender equality.

Prerequisites: none listed

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