Class 2 - Incorporating a gender perspective into economic research - micro focus
Channel: PEP
Date: 07/01/2021

PEP online course: Gender Analysis in Economic Policy Research
Class 2 - Incorporating a gender perspective into economic research - micro focus

1. Learning Objectives
2. Definitions and motivation
3. Contributions of gender analysis to economics
           - Economics of the household
           - Unpaid work and care work 
           - Economics of the labor market
4. Gender wage gaps 
5. Discrimination
6. New perspectives on gender
           - Personality traits and their relevance to gender
           - The role of cultural norms and identity
7. Summary

References
• World Bank. 2012. World Development Report 2012 Overview: Gender Equality and Development. World Bank. Available online at https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/4391
• The Big Question: Why is there still a gender wage gap? Capital Ideas at Chicago Booth Review on Youtube with Marianne Bertrand and Waverly Deutsch.
• Bertrand, Marianne. 2020. Gender in the 21st Century. Richard T. Ely Lecture, American Economic Association, Jan 3, 2020.
• Doss, Cheryl. 2020. Power and perils of Feminist Economics.
• Ariel’s #ShareTheLoad campaign https://www.socialsamosa.com/2017/03/share-the-load-ariel/