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SOC 334

GENDER, WORK, AND FAMILY IN EAST ASIA

3 credits.

An examination of contemporary East Asia (mainly South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and China) by using concepts and frameworks from history, anthropology, sociology, political science, economics, and law. An emphasis will be on the intersection of multiple structures of inequality such as gender, race/ethnicity, citizenship, class, and sexuality.

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Requisites: Sophomore standing Course Designation: Core GenEd - Social & Behavioral Science Breadth - Social Science Level - Intermediate L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Explain how institutional processes, including the labor market, family, and education generate, maintain, and change the cultural understandings of gender. Audience: Undergraduate 2. List past and current studies on how and why female labor force participation and gender wage gap are different across Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and China. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Answer the question of “Can women in East Asia have it all?” and of how social development influence women’s aspirations and choices, producing the patterned behaviors that we observe. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Develop a comparative lens in constructing your own argument on whether – if so, how - different speeds of social change and development influence institutions and cultures of a society. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Draw a conceptual map of cultural and structural foundations of gender inequality in the context of East Asia. Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Explain how institutional processes, including the labor market, family, and education generate, maintain, and change the cultural understandings of gender. Audience: Undergraduate 2. List past and current studies on how and why female labor force participation and gender wage gap are different across Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and China. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Answer the question of “Can women in East Asia have it all?” and of how social development influence women’s aspirations and choices, producing the patterned behaviors that we observe. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Develop a comparative lens in constructing your own argument on whether – if so, how - different speeds of social change and development influence institutions and cultures of a society. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Draw a conceptual map of cultural and structural foundations of gender inequality in the context of East Asia. Audience: Undergraduate

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