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Gender and Sexuality: Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace

138 classificações

University of Pittsburgh

Gender and Sexuality: Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace

138 classificações

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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Changing Landscapes, Identities, and Discourse

This week, we introduce a set of key terms (specifically, LGBTQIA) and explore the significance of these terms in a wider social and political context. This sets the groundwork for the following weeks by providing a shared language to discuss key issues in gender and sexuality studies and by introducing a range of critical issues that are directly related to gender and sexuality.

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Julie Beaulieu
Lecturer
Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies Program
Susan Marine
Guest Lecturer
Assistant Professor and Program Director, School of Education and Social Policy, Merrimack College

[MUSIC]

Hello everyone, and welcome to gender and sexuality, diversion and

inclusion in the workplace.

I'm Dr. Susan Marine, and together with Dr.

Julie Beaulieu, we'll be your instructors for this course.

In this course, we'll explore ideas such as, what is sex?

What is gender?

What is sexuality?

What do mean by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender,

queer, intersex and asexual, also known as 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 are 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 and to help effect positive change for others.

An important thing to understand as we begin our exploration together

is that many of these terms and concepts are relatively recent and

are continuously evolving as our understandings of how people identify,

how they experience the world in those identities, and

how they form communities with one another, change, and shift.

For example, as recently as ten years ago,

the word homosexual would have been a perfectly fine term for everyday use.

But with time, greater visibility, and better understanding

of the experiences of gay and lesbian people in society, the terms gay and

lesbian are far more likely to be used now rather than homosexual,

to respectfully refer to people with those identities.

This course will help you understand these terms and

concepts in a historical context.

You will understand how we have come to understand them, and

how they have evolved and changed.

As we have developed new understanding, as well as theories

about the ways that sexuality and gender function in our world and workplaces.

By providing this context, we hope to give you a strong working language and

understanding of LGBTQIA issues in contemporary society.

To help you understand how these identities dovetail with and

fit into the contemporary workplace, and how we as individuals and

collectively can work together to make our workplaces more LGBTQIA inclusive.

>> Hello, I'm Dr. Julie Beaulieu.

We will also provide you with the tools to understand and to explore gender and

sexual diversity particularly in work environments.

Both, Susan and I have been committed to the field of gender and

sexuality studies for quite some time and

we welcome the opportunity to discuss diversity and inclusion with you.

Many of the lectures provided in this course will take a historical,

theoretical and or cross cultural approach.

All of these approaches to gender and sexuality assume that gender and

sexuality are socially constructed.

As we hope to show, there is a direct relationship between theory and practice.

How we think about gender and

sexual difference shapes how we engage with ourselves and others.

Thinking critically about gender and sexuality and

being attuned to the social forces that shape different experiences

is central to building inclusive workplaces and communities.

We hope to raise your curiosity about gender and

sexual diversity in your own social and cultural contexts.

We encourage you to consider how your locations shapes your views of gender and

sexuality and to share this information with your classmates.

There will be a many opportunities through out this course to engage with others on

complex questions.

It's likely that we would disagree on topics.

Such disagreement on gender sexuality is in fact clear evidence that gender and

sexuality are socially constructed.

Please be respectful to others especially when you disagree.

We will begin with a full exploration of terminology and concepts related to

gender, sexuality, and relationship of these two important vectors of identity.

Thank you for joining us. [MUSIC]

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