Four Courses to Take for International Women's Day

MMS is proud to represent women across the university interested in business-related topics. For years now, the MMS certificate has maintained equal representation of men and women and works to bring in talented women as guest speakers for events and courses. This International Women's Day, we want to highlight four elective courses that address the role of women and gender in the workplace that you might be interested in taking in the future.

ECON 348: Women in the Economy Economics of gender including the status of women in the labor market; feminist economic theories; ethical considerations of gender-based inequalities; gendered division of labor within the family and between the household and labor market. Situation of women in developing countries under- going transition to market economies; gender-related measurements and indicators; explanations and remedies for female/male occupational segregation and wage differentials.

SOCIOL 229: Gender, Work, and Organizations Research and theories on gender issues in the work organization. The socio-historical causes of gender segregation in the workplace and the contemporary consequences for wages and occupational status. Organizational and governmental work and family policies. Case studies of specific work organizations with gender-related problems are utilized in group projects and presentations.

GSF 221: Women at Work: Gendered Experience of Corporate Life Analysis of gender, class and race in contemporary business organizations and roles of men and women within them. Management systems, information technology and human resource systems, as artifacts to larger, gendered environment.

GSF 361: Money, Sex, Power Feminist research on gender dynamics in markets, economies, and capitalism. Includes empirical studies (e.g., historical, cross-cultural, and sociological research) and theoretical approaches to political-economic critique. Covered topics may include the gender, racial and transnational divisions of labor, the relation between work and family, waged household labor, sex work, sweatshop labor.

If you are a woman a Duke who would like to connect with other students interested in these and other business-related topics, check out Duke's Chapter of Business Oriented Women.