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General information

 

Course unit name: Women, Occupations and Societies

Course unit code: 363729

Academic year: 2025-2026

Coordinator: Marc Teignier Baque

Department: Department of Economics

Credits: 6

Single program: S

 

 

Estimated learning time

Total number of hours 150

 

Face-to-face and/or online activities

60
 

-  Lecture with practical component

Face-to-face

  

30
 

-  Problem-solving class

Face-to-face

  

30

Supervised project

40

Independent learning

50

 

 

Learning objectives

 

Referring to knowledge

The aim of the course is to introduce students to an approach to economic analysis and thinking that places gender at its core, and to learn how to assess the gender impact of public policies from their design to their eventual economic and social effects. The course critically examines traditional approaches based on androcentric views of society and highlights the need for new methodological approaches and new conceptual frameworks in economics.

 

Specific objectives

  • Understand the long-term perspective in the emergence and development of gender-based social policies. Recognise the importance of the feminist movement in achieving social advances and in shaping public policies in the period leading up to the development of the welfare state.
  • Examine gender public policies implemented in the countries of fascist Europe, specifically Germany and Spain. Examine policies that sought to stress the naturalization of femininity through motherhood and eugenics.
  • Explore welfare regimes from a comparative and non-androcentric perspective.
  • Analyse social exclusion from a gender perspective.
  • Develop critical thinking about current social policies and their impact on women’s quality of life.

 

 

Teaching blocks

 

1. Gender, care policies and welfare strategies: A historical perspective


1.1. Capitalism and patriarchy: a theoretical framework

1.2. The first wave of the feminist movement and the struggle for political and social rights

1.3. From the building of the welfare state to the second wave of the feminist movement in the 1970s and the care crisis

2. Families, social policies and welfare regimes: A gender perspective

2.1. Welfare regimes from a non-androcentric perspective

2.2. Family diversity and gender

2.3. Time, work and families

3. Gender inequality in the labour market

3.1. Indicators of gender inequality in the labour market

3.2. Economic forces behind the evolution of gender inequality in the labour market

3.3. Aggregate effects of gender inequality in the labour market

 

 

Official assessment of learning outcomes

 

To pass the course, students must obtain a minimum final grade of 5 out of 10. Additionally, students must achieve a minimum required grade in the final exam and in each of the three parts of the course, as specified in the course syllabus.

Students who wish to opt out of continuous assessment and instead choose the single assessment system must notify the course instructors through the designated procedure and within the deadline announced on the Virtual Campus at the beginning of the course.

Continuous assessment

Continuous assessment consists of the following components:

— Continuous assessment exercises (CAEs): students are required to complete a range of compulsory activities and exercises during the semester. The number and type of these activities are determined according to the characteristics of the group. The CAEs are detailed in the course syllabus and account for a maximum of 20% of the final grade.

— Continuous assessment tests (CATs): Several compulsory tests are administered throughout the course. The number and type of these tests are also defined according to the characteristics of the group. The CATs are detailed in the course syllabus and account for a maximum of 40% of the final grade.

— Final exam (FE): At the end of the course, an exam is set. The characteristics of the FE are outlined in the course syllabus. It accounts for a maximum of 50% of the final grade.

If the student does not pass the continuous mode of assessment, he or she is entitled to a repeat assessment. This takes place on the date set by the Academic Board and consists of an exam with the same characteristics as the final exam for students opting for the single mode of assessment.

In the event that methodological changes are made that affect the system of assessment for some groups or parts of the subject, these changes may lead to modifications of the structure described above. These changes will be published on the Virtual Campus at the beginning of the course.

 

Examination-based assessment

Single assessment consists of a final exam covering the entire content of the course. The specific characteristics of this exam are set out in the course syllabus. It accounts for a maximum of 100% of the final grade.

If the student does not pass the continuous mode of assessment, he or she is entitled to a repeat assessment. This takes place on the date set by the Academic Board and consists of an exam with the same characteristics as the final exam for students opting for the single mode of assessment.

 

 

Reading and study resources

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Book

ALMEDA SAMARANCH, Elisabet;  DI NELLA, Dino. (dirs.)  Las familias monoparentales a debate.  (5 vols.) .  Barcelona : Ed. Copalqui, 2011

Catāleg UB  Enllaç

CARRASCO, Cristina. (ed.)   El trabajo de cuidados : historia, teoría y políticas.  Madrid: Los Libros de la Catarata, 2011

Catāleg UB  Enllaç

CARRASCO, Cristina (ed.) . Con voz propia. La economía feminista como apuesta teórica y política. Madrid: Ed. La Oveja Roja, 2014

Catāleg UB  Enllaç

DIETZ, Robert; O’NEILL, Daniel. Enough is Enough. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., 2013.

Catāleg UB  Enllaç

MARÇAL, Katrine. Who cooked Adam Smith’s dinner?. New York: Pegasus Books Ltd, 2016.

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PÉREZ GARZÓN, Juan Sisinio. Historia del feminismo. Madrid: Catarata, 2012

Catāleg UB  Enllaç

Chapter

CARBONELL, M. Trabajo femenino y economías familiares en el antiguo régimen. En: MORANT, Isabel (Dir.), Historia de las mujeres en España y América Latina. vol II. Madrid: Cátedra, 2005, p.237-261.

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KAPLAN, T. Social Movements of Women and Public Good.  A: BORDERIAS, C. Dones en moviment (s) : segles XVIII-XXI. Barcelona: Edicions UB-Icaria, 2008; pp.19-47.

  Based on papers presented at the IV Conference on the History of Work, organized by the Research Group on the History of Work.

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WALL, K. Parental leave policies, gender equity and family well-being in Europe. En: MORENO, A. Family well-being: European perspectives. London: Springer, 2013, p.103-130.

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Article

CARBONELL, M., GÁLVEZ, L. y RODRÍGUEZ, P. Género y cuidados: respuestas sociales e institucionales al surgimiento de la sociedad de mercado en el contexto europeo. Revista Internacional de Ciencias Sociales, núm. 33, p. 7-16.