Simon Fraser University
Engaging the World

Course Outlines

Fall 2022 - LBST 305 D100

Gendering Economy: Paid and Unpaid Labour (4)

Class Number: 3545

Delivery Method: In Person

Overview

  • Course Times + Location:

    Sep 7 – Dec 6, 2022: Tue, 11:30 a.m.–2:20 p.m.
    Burnaby

  • Exam Times + Location:

    Dec 10, 2022
    Sat, 11:59–11:59 p.m.
    Burnaby

  • Prerequisites:

    30 units including LBST 100 or three units in GSWS or WS or GDST.

Description

CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:

Takes a broad approach to gender, placing it dialogue with race and ethnicity, class, nation, and space, to think through the complex dynamic between gender and labour from a variety of perspectives. Explores workers’ lived experiences of gender regimes while critically examining how gender ‘matters’ within the workplace. Students with credit for GSWS 305 (or GSWS 308) may not take this course for further credit. Students with credit for LBST 331 under the title Gender - Paid and Unpaid may not take this course for further credit.

COURSE DETAILS:

This course will take a broad approach to gender, placing it dialogue with race and ethnicity, class, nation, and space, as we think through the complex dynamic between gender and labor from a variety of perspectives. We will explore workers’ lived experiences of gender regimes while critically examining how gender ‘matters’ within the workplace.

On successful completion of this course students will be able to:

  1. Gain an understanding of how the categorization and social construction of sex and gender impacts women’s work opportunities and experiences;
  2. Study how sociological theories are applied to aspects of women’s work experiences such as the gender pay gap, sex segregation and gender discrimination;
  3. Understand the impact of gender on paid work and unpaid work within families;
  4. Identify mechanisms of inequality, discrimination, segregation, oppression and resistance in regards to women’s work;
  5. Gain an understanding of how intersectionality in regards to the social organization of work, most prominently in regards to how gendered work is also a racialized and classed experience;
  6. Apply theoretical understandings of gender and society to explain contemporary work issues.

Grading

  • Participation 10%
  • Midterm Exams x 2 50%
  • Critical Reflection 15%
  • Take home exam 25%

NOTES:

Grading: Where a final exam is scheduled and the student does not write the exam or withdraw from the course before the deadline date, an N grade will be assigned. Unless otherwise specified on the course syllabus, all graded assignments for this course must be completed for a final grade other than N to be assigned. An N is considered as an F for the purposes of scholastic standing.

Grading System: The Undergraduate Course Grading System is as follows:

A+ (95-100) | A (90-94) | A- (85-89) | B+ (80-84) | B (75-79) | B- (70-74) | C+ (65-69) | C (60-64) | C- (55-59) | D (50-54) | F (0-49) | N*
*N standing to indicate the student did not complete course requirements

Academic Honesty and Student Conduct Policies: The Labour Studies Program follows SFU policy in relation to grading practices, grade appeals (Policy T 20.01) and academic honesty and student conduct procedures (S10.01‐S10.04). Unless otherwise informed by your instructor in writing, in graded written assignments you must cite the sources you rely on and include a bibliography/list of references, following an instructor-approved citation style.  It is the responsibility of students to inform themselves of the content of SFU policies available on the SFU website.

Centre for Accessible Learning: Students with hidden or visible disabilities who believe they may need classroom or exam accommodations are encouraged to register with the SFU Centre for Accessible Learning (1250 Maggie Benston Centre) as soon as possible to ensure that they are eligible and that approved accommodations and services are implemented in a timely fashion.

REQUIREMENTS:

 

Materials

REQUIRED READING:

  • Nichols, L. (2019). Working Women in Canada: An Intersectional Approach. Women's Press, Canadian Scholars Press.
  • Padavic, Irene and Barbara F. Reskin. 2002. Women and Men at Work (2nd edition) . Thousand Oaks, California: Pine Forge Press.

Both texts are available ONLINE through the Simon Fraser University Library.

Additional academic journal articles and book chapters and audio-visual material will be made accessible via Canvas and through the SFU library.


REQUIRED READING NOTES:

Your personalized Course Material list, including digital and physical textbooks, are available through the SFU Bookstore website by simply entering your Computing ID at: shop.sfu.ca/course-materials/my-personalized-course-materials.

Registrar Notes:

ACADEMIC INTEGRITY: YOUR WORK, YOUR SUCCESS

SFU’s Academic Integrity website http://www.sfu.ca/students/academicintegrity.html is filled with information on what is meant by academic dishonesty, where you can find resources to help with your studies and the consequences of cheating. Check out the site for more information and videos that help explain the issues in plain English.

Each student is responsible for his or her conduct as it affects the university community. Academic dishonesty, in whatever form, is ultimately destructive of the values of the university. Furthermore, it is unfair and discouraging to the majority of students who pursue their studies honestly. Scholarly integrity is required of all members of the university. http://www.sfu.ca/policies/gazette/student/s10-01.html