Course: Gender and Labour in the Global South

Congratulations! You have come to the end of the first week. This week, we presented a number of topics that helped us understand the role of gender in labour markets. …

The fifth and eighth Sustainable Development Goals of Agenda 2030 are relevant to the question of how sustainability on a global level needs a gender perspective. The goals have several …

Today, the importance of gender equality for sustainable development is widely recognised. The United Nations “Agenda 2030” illustrates this, as it refers to equal opportunity for both women and men …

In this video, Christine Bigler explores the concept and roots of labour market segregation. Labour markets are closely connected to a society’s existing gender norms, relations and stereotypes. These are …

To affirm that the labour market is gendered is to recognise that this institution is shaped by the gender roles, norms and relations present in society. In addition, speaking of …

The question of how young people participate in the labour market is an important one. Youth unemployment rate is one indicator to answer it. However, as Christine Bigler points out, …

The Swiss Programme for Research and Global Issues for Development (r4d programme) is the catalyst for this course. It addresses global problems such as gender-biased labour markets. All three educators …

Employment remains the most reliable way to escape poverty. But what kind of employment is needed and who has access to it? To answer these questions, we need to be …

In this video, Christine Bigler, Bounseng Khammounty and Sony KC introduce the concept of gender and labour markets in Nepal, Laos and Rwanda. Although women’s participation in the paid labour …

Congratulations on finishing the course “Gender and Labour in the Global South”! We hope you enjoyed the course as much as we did. Hopefully, this course gave you an interesting …

In this last week of our course, we introduced a key concept for addressing inequalities in labour markets: intersectionality. Moving from a gender perspective to an intersectional perspective responds to …

The COVID-19 pandemic is not only a health crisis, but also a socio-economic one (Kabeer et al., 2021) that does not affect all people equally. While the full extent of …

The growth of free trade has promoted the globalisation of export-oriented, labour-intensive industries (True 2012). Women play a major role in the global economy. In fact, the global economy would …

Historically, feminist theories have always sought to highlight the intertwining of power relations and the overlap of different forms of discrimination. It wasn’t until 1989, however, that African-American legal scholar …

Nepal’s labour market status is divided into formal and informal economy. While the formal sector holds benefits such as formalised paid leave and social security, generated and guided by labour …