Course Detail
Units:
3.0
Course Components:
Lecture
Description
This course meets with ECON 6560. Graduate students should register for ECON 6560 and will be held to higher standards and/or additional work. The impact of economic development on the gender division of labor and gender-based control over resources in the Third World. 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.