Content of the lesson

The content of this lesson was provided by the International Labour Organisation (ILO). This lesson outlines gender equality as a key element of any development agenda, and an issue cutting across all other social and economic sectors. It gives a historical overview of the legal and political milestones of the international action for gender equality and women's empowerment and appraises some operational approaches to promote gender equality in development planning.


Target group

Introductory lesson for Bachelor students.


Courses in which the lesson has been used so far

Humangeographie II (GEO 222): 4th semester geography students (ca. 120 students): 2008 (Mathias Junginger)






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