The Institute for Women’s & Gender Studies will be hosting its annual Winter School in June

The outcomes of the course are:

• To integrate gender issues in every day life
• To explore how traditional ideas and attitudes about gender affect women’s and men’s access to resources and decision-making
• To understand why gender sensitivity and awareness are important to social development
• To understand the intersections between gender and transformation
• To understand the relationship between gender and disability
• To understand the importance of a gender awareness in the workplace

The content for the course includes:

• Conceptual clarification / Dimensions of diversity
• Gender, sexuality & sexual orientation
• Transformational leadership: the issues and tasks
• Gender and Development
• Monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment
• Gender-based violence
• Gender and budgeting
• Gender mainstreaming: policy development and analysis

The course will be offered from the 1-4 June 2010. The course fee is R4600 per enrolment.

The provisional programme can be viewed here

For further information or enrolment please contact the Institute’s offices at:

Tel: 012 420 3898
Email: marinda.maree@up.ac.za / rory.duplessis@up.ac.za