COURSE OUTLINE ON GENDER AND POLICY

COURSE OUTLINE ON GENDER AND POLICY

By 

Olufemi.P.Adelusi (Ph.D)

 

COURSE DESCRIPTION

In a society where women and men, including children and youth have different roles and positions, there is no gender-neutral perspective. The seemingly “general” view is a very male one. Women and their life-situations, their needs and interests are often not recognized sufficiently, whereby the discrimination of women is reinforced. As a result of women’s struggles both within, and outside of the state, there have been some major strides toward gender equality in public policies in global terms. But how much progress has been achieved? How much impact has feminism had on public policy? What is yet to be achieved? How are state policies gendered? What is involved in gendering public policy?

This course is therefore designed to explore common behaviours and attitudes towards gender differences while presenting facts and figures about the situation of women and men in society today. Through a range of issues including work, child care, and budgeting, this course will consider the effect of public policy and state restructuring on women’s lives and on gender relations, as well as possible strategies for change. It seeks to empower students with tools for gender mainstreaming in various institutions and development planning. The aim is to further improve the abilities of students to reduce gender inequalities in their future organisations and communities.

Course Objectives
i) To develop capacity to carry out development policies from a gender perspective.

ii) To enable students develop the capacity of mainstreaming gender perspectives in social economic and political development issues.

iii) To introduce students to key concepts of gender theory and practice.

iv) To build capacity in historical analysis of gender constructions.

v) To enable students develop awareness of gender relations.

Course Outline

Module 1: Introduction        

Week 1: Introduction

Week 2: Conceptualisation of Gender

Week 3: History and Relevance of Gender

Module 2: Identifying Gender Issues

Week 4: Gender, culture and religion

Week 5: Valuing unpaid work

Week 6: Gender Dimensions of the globalization of production

Module 3: The Policy Environment

Week 7 & 8: Gender and Rights: Labour (including National Child Care Issues/ Maternity Parental leave Entitlements, Child labour trafficking), Economic (including land and property rights) and Political Rights.

Week 9: Gender impact of various state’s policy alternatives

Module 4: Gender Issues in Management

Week 10: Gender Budgeting

Week 11: Promoting gender considerations in the achievement of the MDGs

Week 12: Revision: Incorporating gender into policy making

STRATEGIC CONTROL

Business strategy is known to guide companies into the future, therefore, impacting the results that are ultimately reported in historical financial statements. This course shows how strategic control systems can give managers the timely quantitative and qualitative information they need to “drive into the future” with confidence and success. Managers use control systems to maintain or alter patterns in organizational activities. Desirable patterns may include efficiency and error-free processing, such as yield rates in manufacturing environments. In other instances, they may relate to patterns

of ongoing creativity and innovation in products or internal processes, such as percentage of sales from new products or year-over-year improvement in processing speed. Rather than simply identifying good business measurements, this course emphasizes the identification and utilization of measurements that drive results consistent with corporate strategies.

Therefore, strategic control introduces the requirement of thinking about what is really going on and making changes if required (the second feedback loop in the system).

Strategic control systems are primarily concerned with monitoring and managing strategy

implementation, part of which will be determining and calibrating the focus of related operational control systems.

Course Outline

Module 1: Introduction

Week 1: Introduction:

Week 2: Clarifying conceptual issues

Module 2: Analysing Strategic Control

Week 3: Organisational Tensions

Week 4: Organising for Performance

Week 5: Building a Profit Plan

Week 6: Implementing Profit Plan

Module 3: Evaluating Strategic Control

Week 7: Evaluating Strategic Profit

Week 8: Asset allocation

Week 9: Linking Performance to markets

Module 4: Managing Strategic Risk

Week 10: How to manage strategic risk

Week 11: Levers of Control.

Week 12: Revision