Gender, Social Policy, and Inequality

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

In this module the student examines some of the major issues and challenges facing social policy, focusing on gender, motherhood and fatherhood. In This module the student is expected to apply the concept of gender to the comparative analysis of welfare state development in Ireland and abroad. The student is expected to contrast and compare contemporary perspectives on gender, patriarchy and inequality. As well as focusing on motherhood, fatherhood, and welfare state typologies the student is also expected to focus on the social citizenship issues of care, work and welfare.