Care policies with a gender perspective

International Course:

"Care policies with a gender perspective"

Summary: The course will address key discussions and analyses surrounding the topic of care from a gender perspective. Throughout the lectures, participants will explore the debates and conceptual challenges regarding the content and scope of care, as well as the link between care and welfare systems, citizenship and rights, and analyses and research on migration and care.

Classes and teachers:

Class 1: Gender and care: central concepts – Prof. Karina Batthyány (CLACSO and University of the Republic, Uruguay)

Class 2: Ethics of Care and caring democracy – Prof. Joan Tronto (University of Minnesota, United States)

Class 3: Care and use of time – Prof. María Ángeles Durán (Spanish National Research Council, Spain)

Class 4: Methodologies for addressing care – Prof. Lucía Scuro (ECLAC, Uruguay)

Class 5: Rights to Care – Prof. Laura Pautassi (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina)

Class 6: Care Workers – Prof. Nadya Guimarães (University of São Paulo, Brazil)

Class 7: Care and State - Prof. Bila Sorj (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

Class 8: Care and migrations – Prof. Amaia Pérez Orozco (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain)

Class 9: Care regimes: challenges and opportunities for equality – Prof. Juliana Martínez (University of Costa Rica)

Class 10: The State and Fatherhood in Latin America: Genes, Economic Support and Care – Prof. Juliana Martínez (University of Costa Rica)

Class 11: Care from an anthropological perspective – Prof. Jeanine Anderson (Pontifical Catholic University of Peru)

Class 12: Care and Aging – Prof. Rosario Aguirre (University of the Republic, Uruguay)

Summary: The workshop is a training space designed to guide the development of the final monograph for the specialization. It will support students in defining their object of analysis, translating it into a viable research problem, constructing a work plan, developing argumentative frameworks, and establishing analytical conclusions. These tasks will be carried out individually and collectively through peer exchange and with the workshop instructor, following a discussion forum format. The workshop's objective is to produce a draft of the final specialization paper. The final monograph may be written in Spanish, Portuguese, or English.

Coordination: Karina Batthyány (University of the Republic, Uruguay), Joan Tronto (University of Minnesota, United States) and Natalia Genta (University of the Republic, Uruguay)

Coordination: Karina Batthyány (University of the Republic, Uruguay), Joan Tronto (University of Minnesota, United States) and Natalia Genta (University of the Republic, Uruguay)

Summary: This course will introduce students to the various definitions of care and will explore reflections on the ethics of care; the links between gender theory and care; and different dimensions of care, among other topics. It will address perspectives that recognize care as work associated with love and female identity, as well as those that define it as work, both paid and unpaid, and whether or not it can be considered equivalent to other types of work. The course will also examine the methodological challenges and considerations for measuring care. It will cover qualitative and quantitative methodological approaches to care in different countries of the region. Finally, it will explore the challenges of quantitatively measuring care based on the contributions of the region's Time Use Surveys and their main challenges.

Coordination: Eleonor Faur (National University of San Martín, Argentina)

Summary: This course proposes to explore care as a component of social well-being, and how it is provided and distributed within different welfare systems. This connects it to discussions on public policy and the right to care. The course will cover the concept of the social organization of care, analyses of the supply and demand for care, family care arrangements and strategies, and studies of the social representations of care.

Coordination: Gender Affairs Division - ECLAC

Summary: The conference will focus on the impacts of migration on the social organization of childcare and care for dependent persons, both in countries of origin and destination, and will analyze studies at the national and regional levels. Discussions on global care chains will be examined, and numerous research projects on this topic from Latin America will be presented.

Coordination: Natalia Genta (University of the Republic, Uruguay), Laura Pautassi (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina) and Juliana Martínez (National University of Costa Rica)

Summary: This course will present paradigmatic or prominent cases from countries in the region related to the development of their public care policies. The course will be approached through a comparative analysis of public policies concerning families, social protection, care, life course, and well-being from a gender perspective in different countries of the region.