女性進入勞力市場的增加不但改變了工作場所的景況而且對個人日常生活也有顯著的影響。本課程的設計主要希望讓學生對性別與工作的研究領域有一個概括性的了解, 同時,希望學生體驗到如何利用理論與實證的研究取向來分析探討性別不平等的現象。
本課程將著重在探討下列有關的研究議題: (1)在現代工業社會中性別與社經發展的關連為何? (2)家庭特質對男女工作經歷方面具有什麼樣的影響效果? (3)個人如何因應來自工作與家庭的雙重任務需求? (4)何種因素能夠解釋男女在工作表現方面的差異? (5)在不同的文化範疇下,如何了解性別與工作的發展情況?

如上課進度。

週 次 日 期     主        題            
第一週 02/21     Introduction
第二週 02/28     和平紀念日（放假）
第三週 03/06     Women and Class Structure
第四週 03/13     Industrialization and Gender Stratification
第五週 03/20     Overview of Women, Work, and Family
第六週 03/27     Household and Division of Labor-I
第七週 04/03     Household and Division of Labor-II
第八週    04/10     The Interaction of Family and Employment Roles
第九週    04/17     Gender Stratification in Wage Difference (期中考週)
第十週    04/24     期末報告初步構想討論
第十一週 05/01     Occupational Sex Segregation
第十二週 05/08     Stratifying Process inside the Workplace    
第十三週 05/12     Gender Stratification in Different Cultural Context-I
第十四週 05/22     Gender Stratification in Different Cultural Context-II
第十五週 05/29     Gender Stratification in Different Cultural Context-III
第十六週 06/05     Globalization, Uncertainty, and Women’s Careers
第十七週 06/12     期末報告presentation
第十八週 06/19     (期末考週)

課堂講授、報告、及討論。

同學應依照進度閱讀指定文章，並上傳閱讀心得及問題至數位教學平台。本課程學期成績計算方式包括以下部分：
（1）平時上課表現（10％）
（2）平時作業（25％）：閱讀心得與問題
（3）分組報告（25％）
（4）期末研究報告或讀書心得（40％）：第9週上課前請提繳2-3頁的初步構想。

上課教材:
~ :推薦閱讀文章;             AJS : American Journal of Sociology;
ASR: American Sociological Review;     ARS: Annual Review of Sociology

(Week #.)
A. Introduction
.1. Introduction.
.2. 和平紀念日（放假）
B. Women and Class Structure
.3. Jackson, Robert M. 1998. Destined for Equality: The Inevitable Rise of Women’s Status. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Chapter 1.

Hartmann, Heidi I. 1976. "Capitalism, Patriarchy, and Job Segregation by Sex." Pp.137-69 in Women and the Workplace: The Implications of Occupational Segregation, edited by Martha Blaxall and Barbara Reagan. Chicago: University of Chicago.

C. Industrialization and Gender Stratification
.4. Boserup, Ester. 1995. "Obstacles to Advancement of Women during Development." Pp.51-60 in Investment in women's human capital, edited by T. P. Schultz. Chicago:University of Chicago Press.

Goldin, Claudia. 1995. "The U-Shaped Female Labor Force Participation Function in Economic History." Pp. 61-90 in Investment in Women's Human Capital, edited by T.P. Schultz. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. [Read Pp.61-78.]

D. Overview of Women, Work, and Family
.5. Goldin, Claudia. 1995. "The U-Shaped Female Labor Force Participation Function in Economic History." Pp. 61-90 in Investment in Women's Human Capital, edited by T. P. Schultz. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. [Read Pp.78-90.]

Oppenheimer, Valerie Kincade . 1994. "Women's Rising Employment and the Future of the Family in Industrial Societies." Population and Development Review 20:293-342.

E. Household and Division of Labor
.6. Becker, Gary. 1985. "Human Capital, Effort, and the Sexual Division of Labor." Journal of Labor Economics 3 (Supplement):S33-S58.

Brines, Julie. 1994. "Economic Dependency, Gender, and the Division of Labor at Home." AJS 100:652-688.

蕭英玲. 2005. "台灣的家務分工:經濟依賴及性別的影響." 台灣社會學刊 34:115-145.

South, Scott J. and Glenna D. Spitze. 1994. "Housework in Marital and Nonmarital Households." ASR 59:327-347.

.7 England, Paula and Barbara Stanek Kilbourne. 1990. "Markets, Marriages, and Other Mates: The Problem of Power." Pp.163-188 in Beyond the Marketplace : Rethinking Economy and Society, edited by R. Friedland and A. F. Robertson. New York: Aldine de Gruyter.

Hartmann, Heidi I. 1981. "The Family as the Locus of Gender, Class, and Political Struggle: The Example of Housework." Signs 6:366-394.

Papanek, Hanna. 1979. "Family Status Production: The 'Work' and 'Non-Work' of Women." Signs 4:775-781.

F. The Interaction of Family and Employment Roles
.8 Bielby, William T. and Denise D. Bielby. 1992. "I Will Follow Him: Family Ties, Gender-Role Beliefs, and Reluctance to Relocate for a Better Job." AJS 97:1241-1267.

Oppenheimer, Valerie Kincade. 1988. "A Theory of Marriage Timing." AJS 94:563-591.

G. Gender Stratification in Wage Difference
.9. Marini, Margaret Mooney and Pi-Ling Fan. 1997. "The Gender Gap in Earnings at Career Entry." ASR 62:588-604.

Kilbourne, Barbara Stanek, George Farkas, Kurt Beron, Dorothea Weir, and Paula England. 1994. "Returns to Skill, Compensating Differentials, and Gender Bias: Effects of Occupational Characteristics on the Wages of White Women and Men." AJS 100:689-719

Tam, Tony. 1997. "Sex Segregation and Occupational Gender Inequality in the United States: Devaluation or Specialized Training?" AJS 102:1652-1692.

H. Occupational Sex Segregation
.10. 期末報告初步構想討論

.11. Chang, Mariko Lin. 2000. "The Evolution of Sex Segregation." AJS 105:1658-1701.

Mandel, Hadas and Moshe Semyonov. 2006. "A Welfare State Paradox: State Interventions and Women's Employment Opportunities in 22 Countries." AJS 111:1910-1949.

I. Stratifying Processes inside the Workplace
.12. Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. 1977. Men and Women of the Corporation (Chapter 4). New York: Basic Books.

Ogasawara, Yuko. 2001. "Women’s Solidarity: Company Policies and Japanese Ladies. " Pp.151-179. In Women’s Working Lives in East Asia edited by Mary C. Brinton. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

J. Gender Stratification in Different Cultural Contexts
.13. Greenhalgh, Susan. 1985. "Sexual Stratification: The Other Side of "Growth with Equity" in East Asia." Population and Development Review 11:265-314.

Parish, William L. and Robert J. Willis. 1995. "Daughters, Education, and Family Budgets: Taiwan Experiences." Pp.239-272 in Investment in Women's Human Capital, edited by T. P. Schultz. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

.14. Brinton, Mary C. 2001. "Married Women's Labor in East Asian Economies." Pp.1-37 in Women’s Working Lives in East Asia edited by Mary C. Brinton. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

Brinton, Mary C., Yean-Ju Lee, and William L. Parish. 1995. "Married Women's Employment in Rapidly Industrializing Societies: Examples from East Asia." AJS 100:1099-1130.

.15. Brinton, Mary C and Sunhwa Lee. 2001. "Women's Education and the Labor Market in Japan and South Korea." Pp.125-150 in Women’s Working Lives in East Asia edited by Mary C. Brinton. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

Sunhwa Lee. 2001. "Women’s Education, Work, and Marriage in South Korea." Pp.204-232. In Women’s Working Lives in East Asia edited by Mary C. Brinton. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

Yu, Wei-hsin. 2001. "Taking informality into Account: Women's Work in the Formal and Informal Sectors in Taiwan." Pp.233-262 in Women’s Working Lives in East Asia edited by Mary C. Brinton. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

.16. Hofmeister, Heather and Hans-Peter Blossfeld and Melinda Mills. 2006. “Globalization, Uncertainty and Women’s Mid-career Life Courses : a Theoretical Framework.” Pp.204-232 in Globalization, Uncertainty and Women's Careers: an International Comparison edited by Hans-Peter Blossfeld and Heather Hofmeister. Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar.

Kalmijn, Matthijs and Ruud Luijkx. 2006. “Changes in Women’s Employment and Occupational Mobility in the Netherlands : 1955 to 2000” Pp. 84-112 in Globalization, Uncertainty and Women's Careers : an International Comparison edited by Hans-Peter Blossfeld and Heather Hofmeister. Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar.

.17. 期末報告presentation

.18. (期末考週).