Course details: This course gives a broad overview of the major issues that women face in the workplace and in family around the world. This semester, we will examine the potential and constraints that the social construction of gender norms presents for the idea of work-family conflict in many nations. Additionally, public policy has a significant role in shaping these interconnected institutions. We will examine the nexus of gender, work, family, and public policy from a variety of multifaceted and comparative perspectives. We will begin with an overview of basic concepts and definitions related to gender inequality in workplace, work-family conflict, and the public policy shaping these phenomena. We will then turn to a series of studies of women’s experiences in paid work both in highly industrialized countries in the west and developing countries outside of the western context. During this course we will also focus our attention to policies and institutions that shape women’s experiences in paid work, and gender inequality in the labor market more generally. We will compare policies operating in both western and non-western contexts.