The Instruments of Gender Equality

A.Y. 2023/2024
3
Max ECTS
24
Overall hours
SSD
IUS/08
Language
Italian
Learning objectives
The course aims to provide students of any faculty of the University and with any high school background with the skills to critically identify the issues underlying the effective guarantee of the principle of gender equality and consequently to know and make their own the tools aimed at overcoming them, contributing to the construction of a greater and more solid awareness.
Expected learning outcomes
Through theoretical and practical lessons, the aim is to test not only the assimilation of a series of general and abstract notions relating to the topics addressed in the course, but also the critical ability to detect problematic issues in the subject and to identify possible solutions.
Single course

This course can be attended as a single course.

Course syllabus and organization

Single session

Responsible
Lesson period
First semester
Course syllabus
The course programme includes an in-depth examination of the issues underlying the effective guarantee and implementation of the principle of gender equality in the various fields of interest:
- the principle of gender equality and the reconciliation of professional and personal life. Obstacles and expectations of male/female graduates
- the principle of gender equality in women's political representation
- the principle of gender equality in language
- the principle of gender equality in the business world
- the principle of gender equality in employment
- the principle of gender equality in medicine
- the principle of gender equality in the family
- the principle of gender equality in universities
Prerequisites for admission
Not required.
Teaching methods
The course includes lectures that will alternate between theoretical frontal introductory profiles and practical/interactive ones.
Teaching Resources
M. D'Amico, Una parità ambigua, Raffaello Cortina, 2020: parti scelte
M. D'Amico - B. Liberali (a cura di), Gli strumenti della parità di genere, Editoriale Scientifica, in corso di pubblicazione.
Assessment methods and Criteria
Students will be called upon to actively participate in the lectures: in particular, after being offered the tools and general knowledge on the various topics, they will be called upon to practise and discuss with lecturers and other students with particular reference to specific concrete cases.
IUS/08 - CONSTITUTIONAL LAW - University credits: 3
Lessons: 24 hours