https://at-ceu.studyguide.timeedit.net/modules/DOPP5443?type=COREThis course provides analytical skills and tools to understand the role of gender inequalities in public policies and political processes surrounding them and ways to mitigate these inequalities throughout the policy process. It introduces concepts and tools necessary for gender policy analysis and research on proven tactics for achieving policies that address gender inequalities. In its first section the class will discuss fundamental concepts and mechanisms important to understand how gender influences policymaking, including how gender operates as a social structure and its intersectional relationship to other social structures such as race, class, sexual orientation or disability. Discussion will cover gender as a category, and gender inequality as a structural mechanism permeating institutions, organizations, processes, practices, knowledge and discourses fundamental to policymaking, as well as specific methods used in gender public policy analysis. This section of the class will also introduce the distinction between putting in place specific, targeted, gender equality policies, on the one hand, and gendering mainstream policies, on the other. The second section of the class will direct its attention to how gender is embedded in the politics of the policy making process, including in the specific behavior of political actors, organizations and institutions, and stages of the policy process. First, it will discuss stages of the policy process including policy development, implementation and monitoring and evaluation, specific challenges in gendering these policy stages. Next it will analyze key policy actors and the specific roles they play in gendering policy processes. Separate sessions will cover: states including legislators and courts, civil society and social movements, policy platforms for state-civil society interaction, international and transnational actors, and veto players: opponents of gender equality. The course will allow students to assess what strategies have been more or less effective in promoting more gender-equitable public policies. The focus of the class will be on contemporary European policy arenas with a global outlook. Students taking the class for grade have priority in admission.Part of the Social Justice and Human Rights specialization for MAPP and MPAPart of both the Democracy and the Policy track courses for MAIPA