| CODE | CLS1210 | |||||||||
| TITLE | Gender and Decision Making | |||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 01 - Year 1 in Modular Undergraduate Course | |||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | |||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | |||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Centre for Labour Studies | |||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit will take students on a critical journey through a number of social institutions, starting from the family, through work and trade unions, and ending in local and national governments, looking at the many structures and processes of decision making and the impact and role that gender has in these structures and processes. Special care will be taken to unpack and deconstruct the differential impacts and influences of men versus women on, and by, the political process. Study-Unit Aims: The main objectives of this study-unit are: - To alert students to the gendered dimension of politics, identifying the origins, manifestations and consequences of gender related issues in decision making at work and in society at large. - To compare and contrast, where possible, approaches to decision making taken by men, women and those with other sexual orientations; as well as those taken in Malta with those taken in other countries. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Name and describe various episodes that contrast decision making experiences on the basis of gender. - Analyse trends and patterns in democratic elections on the basis of a gendered lens. - Analyse trends and patterns in the management of enterprises on the basis of a gendered perspective. - Compare developments in Malta, where the ‘masculinity’ index remains rather high, with other societies with both similar (e.g. Italy, Greece) and different masculinity levels (e.g. even higher in Saudi Arabia and Iran but also much lower in Cuba and Sweden). 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Source, retrieve and catalogue information from web-based sources. - Undertake simple statistical manipulations based on tabulated numerical data. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Select References (not an exhaustive list): - Grech, V. (2014). The male: female ratio at birth is depressed by Maltese Parliamentary elections and increased by other non-electoral events. International Journal of Tropical Disease & Health, 4(11), 1123-1131. http://www.sciencedomain.org/download.php?f=Victor4112014IJTDH12672_1.pdf&type=a&aid=5846 - Krook, M. L. (2006). Reforming representation: The diffusion of candidate gender quotas worldwide. Politics & Gender, 2(3), 303-327. - Merton, R. K. (1968). Social theory and social structure. New York: Free Press. Visit also: http://www.bolenderinitiatives.com/sociology/robert-king-merton-1910-2003/robert-king-merton-mertons-five-types-adaptation for the five types of adaptation. - Mitchell, J. P. (1996). Gender, politics and ritual in the construction of social identities: The case of San Pawl, Valletta, Malta (Doctoral dissertation, University of Edinburgh, Scotland). - Noon, M. (2010). The shackled runner: time to rethink positive discrimination?. Work, Employment & Society, 24(4), 728-739. - Norris, P. (2000). Breaking the barriers: positive discrimination policies for women. Chapter 10 in J. Klausen & C. S. Maier. (Eds.), Has liberalism failed women? Parity, quotas and political representation. New York: St Martin’s Press. http://scholar.google.ca/scholar_url?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hks.harvard.edu%2Ffs%2Fpnorris%2FAcrobat%2FQUOTAS.PDF&hl=en&sa=T&oi=ggp&ct=res&cd=4&ei=4Zi3VOiBA8S70AH8hYCIBQ&scisig=AAGBfm2eO1dlWpLVUS-vKlBsk0o01EN7wA&nossl=1&ws=1293x600. - Ortega Villodres, C. (2008). Gender and party duopoly in a small state: ballot position effects under the single transferable vote in Malta, 1947–2008. South European Society and Politics, 13(4), 435-456. - Zammit, E. L. (1984). A colonial inheritance: Maltese perceptions of work, power and class structure with reference to the labour movement. Malta: Malta University Press. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Grp Learning, Independent Onl Learning & Lectures | |||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Godfrey Baldacchino Anna Borg Marceline Naudi Lorraine Spiteri |
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