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Gender and Sexuality: Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace

University of Pittsburgh

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What is sex? What is gender? What is sexuality? What do we mean by LGBTQIA? How are these concepts related to the workplace? How have our understandings of these terms changed over time, and how have these changes impacted work and culture? To help you answer these important questions, this course will introduce you to the exciting field of gender, sexuality, and women's studies, and to LGBTQIA identities. We will use a range of interdisciplinary concepts, tools, and methods to understand and analyze how identity shapes our experiences in culture and in the workplace. Because we all live with gender expectations, this course is crucial for any profession, and for understanding the world around us. Also, you will learn key concepts that will help you to interpret and understand the world we share.

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Approx. 16 hours to complete

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Instructors

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Julie Beaulieu

Lecturer

Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies Program

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Susan Marine

Guest Lecturer

Assistant Professor and Program Director, School of Education and Social Policy, Merrimack College

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University of Pittsburgh

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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course

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Week

Week 1

3 hours to complete

Changing Landscapes, Identities, and Discourse

3 hours to complete

5 videos (Total 43 min), 6 readings, 1 quiz

Week

Week 2

5 hours to complete

The History of Gender and Gender in Theory

5 hours to complete

4 videos (Total 40 min), 7 readings, 2 quizzes

Week

Week 3

5 hours to complete

The History of Sexuality and Sexuality in Theory

This week, we provide a brief overview of the historical and emerging understanding of sexuality and sexual identity. We then explore the history of sexuality and sexual identity discrimination in the workplace (early days of allowed discrimination against LGB people; larger issue of job insecurity for LGB folks; advent of ENDA, controversies around ENDA –how that has played out to pit LGB people and trans* people against one another).

5 hours to complete

5 videos (Total 46 min), 7 readings, 1 quiz

5 videos

Sexuality in Theory12m

LQBTQIA Identities and Rights8m

LGB at Work8m

Challenges Faced by LGB Individuals in the Workplace10m

Strategies for Making Workplaces More LGB Inclusive5m

7 readings

Key Terms5m

Thinking Sex30m

LGBT Employment Discimination10m

Understanding 21st Century LGBT Workers10m

The Business Impact of LGBT Workplace Policies10m

Self-assessment10m

Additional Resources1h 30m

1 practice exercise

Cyster Systems Case Study 230m

Week

Week 4

3 hours to complete

Trans Topics Today and Trans in Theory

This week, you will learn about the evolution of understanding about transgender people’s lives and identities, exploring the long history of gender transgression across different cultural contexts, and talk about the ways we understand gender transgression to function. We then discuss how those who identify outside the gender binary present important challenges to fixed ways of being/thinking about gender. Finally, we examine the ways that transgender individuals have faced and surmounted oppression in the workplace (also known as genderism, a term coined by Riki Wilchins), and the kinds of laws that are designed to protect their rights.

3 hours to complete

6 videos (Total 40 min), 6 readings, 1 quiz

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TOP REVIEWS FROM GENDER AND SEXUALITY: DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION IN THE WORKPLACE

by CWMar 13, 2022

Very thorough and well taught. I believe this course would work as an excellent introductory course for anyone in the workforce. Thank you for taking the time to create it!

by NCSep 16, 2020

Thanks a lot to the educators of the course.It's a beautifully designed course and as a professor myself can understand the hard work that goes in it.Well done job!

by ADJan 25, 2018

Short but a beautifully concise course on understanding gender and sexuality. It also gives one tools to make the workplace an inclusive environment for LGBTQIA, and eradicate discrimination.

by AAJan 30, 2022

If you need a basic understanding of the every day experiences of the LGBTQIA+ community, especially in the workplace, this is the best place to start.

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