GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES  
 

GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES (GDS) is a center for graduate studies, research and outreach in the School of Environment, Resources and Development. Within the overall gender specific framework, GDS highlights both the need for specialized academic degree awarding studies in gender and development, and the integration of gender analysis and a gender relations perspectives in AIT’s other fields of study. GDS offers graduate level courses and provides substantial input to student’s Masters and PhD dissertation research. Short courses and workshops are also offered on gender planning and gender analysis in various development fields.

Vision

GDS envisions to be the center of excellence in Gender and Development Studies in the Asian region that:
• Trains specialists in gender and development;
• Increases gender awareness among technology, management ad development professionals;
• Generates knowledge through interdisciplinary research and publications in technology, development, and gender relations in Asian societies;
• Assists other institutions in Asia to strengthen gender studies through training, research and outreach; and
• Functions as an academic arm of national and community-based efforts for the advancement of women and sustainable development.
 

Objectives

By functioning as an academic arm of community-based efforts for the advancement of women, equity-based sustainable development and poverty alleviation, GDS aims to work as a regional center of excellence in the field of gender, technology and development studies, and to integrate gender as a key intellectual perspective and ethical concern in AIT as well. This is to be achieved by:
• Teaching post-graduate students in GDS to create gender experts, as well as co-teaching in other fields of study in AIT to create gender-sensitive/gender-responsive engineers, managers and scientists;
• Generating knowledge through interdisciplinary research and publication in technology, development, and gender relations in Asian societies;
• Providing advice and assistance to academic, policy units and external agencies with regards to ender issues and gender-responsive development strategies;
• Providing short-term courses to development practitioners and organizations in Asia;
• Forging linkages with international women’s studies and gender studies research networks and associations to engage in the current drift of debates and issues that would enhance curriculum building.

Courses Offered

• Gender and Development: Principles and Concepts
• Gender, Enterprise, and Organizations
• Gender, Rural Livelihoods and Sustainable Development
• Gender, Technology and Economic Development
• Gender, Culture and Human development
• Gender Analysis and Gender Responsive Development Planning
• New technologies, Industrialization and Gender
• Gender and Urban Management
• Gender Politics, Civil Society & Human Rights
• Gender, Migration and Human trafficking in Asia
• Gender and Transportation Management: Issues and Policies
• Gender and Health

  
     

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