ECON 6560 - Gender and Economic Development

Graduate students should register for ECON 6560 and will be held to higher standards and/or additional work. The course concerns the interaction between economic development and the gender division of labor and gender-based control over resources in developing countries. Case studies of rural transformation and agricultural development, rural-urban migration, urbanization and industrialization, economic crisis and population growth. Examines policies and political struggles aimed at reducing gender bias in development processes.