Minor in Gender Studies
The drive towards effective equality for women and men launched by international organisms and the Catalan, state and international regulatory framework has led to an increase in the demand for professionals who are specialised in gender-based issues. The training given on this minor enables students to acquire the tools and skills to incorporate a gender perspective in their future academic and professional activities, and thereby help overcome what is effectively a blindness to shat is still gender dominance. this blindness translates into a failure to recognise the roles and responsabilities attributed to women and men in specific social, cultural, economic and political contexts, which contributes to reproducing the existing inequalities.
The aim of the minor in Gender studies is to provide specialised interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary training in different fields of social and legal sciences and humanities, which consider gender as a kew analytical and explanatory variable.
The content included in the minor is based on feminist theoretical and empirical contributions. These contributions have highlighted the fact that gender is a constituent element of social relationships and structures which, through discourse and ideologies, imposes different social norms, stereotypes and roles regarding femininity, masculinity, sexuality and gender identity and expression.
The minor thereby develops the capacity to evaluate inequality based on sex, gender and sexual diversity, and to design solutions taking into consideration the intersection of gender with other areas of inequality (social class, ethnicity, race, functional diversity, etc.).