The course’s aim is to enable the students to critically reflect the interrelationship of social policy, social ideas and gender. Focusing on contemporary developments, the structural influence on women’s and men’s individual choices is discussed concerning social ideas, society, employment and family in the field of social policy.
Students will be equipped with the skills necessary for advanced research and understanding relation between gender and social policy:
- Concept of gender
- Political Ideas and Feminist Critique
- Social Policy and Gender
- Employment and Gender
- Family and Gender
- Intersectionality
- Feminism as Social Idea

Introduction during the COSOPO Intensive Programme in Tampere. Distance learning elements. Short essays on provided articles in combination with moodle discussion.

Only for students of the Cosopo master's programme.