Gender and Diversity in Business

Term: Summer 2018

Course Instructor: Dr. Andrea-Hilla Carl

Syllabus:

• Basic questions of gender and business: Equal opportunities in business?
• Gender as a socially constructed category in professional and corporate hierarchies, negotiation processes and micro politics
• Causes and functioning of gendered processes in business (wages, leadership, recruitment, promotion, working time)

Readings:

• Gertraude Krell, Renate Ortlieb, Barbara Sieben (eds.), Chancengleichheit durch Personalpolitik – Gleichstellung von Frauen und Männern in Unternehmen und Verwaltungen - Rechtliche Regelungen - Problemanalysen - Lösungen, 6. Aufl., Wiesbaden 2011