Schedule
Tue-Thu, 6:30 PM - 7:50 PM (9/1/2011 - 9/21/2011) Location: MAIN 08 104
Tue-Thu, 6:30 PM - 7:50 PM (9/1/2011 - 12/21/2011) Location: MAIN 04 001
Description
Pre-requisite: Junior Classification
The course introduces students to the main debates and concerns of women and development. Student study the various economic activities of women in rural and urban economies, in formal and informal sectors and they consider crucial issues of women's access to land, property, income, technology and finance, as well as questions of the environment. Emphasis is placed on the evaluation of existing national and international economic and developmental policies and their implications for women in the Arab world especially.