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OSUN, Summer Course, Community Engaged Liberal Arts and Sciences (CELAS)
Women and COVID 19: Activism, Leadership, and Global Engagement
It's 2020: how do we understand women and leadership today in the context of the global COVID-19 crisis and a world economy in free fall? Women are playing a large role in responding to the COVID-19 crisis, serving as frontline healthcare workers, public health experts, leaders on the political stage, mobilizers in their communities, and caregivers at home. As the crisis intensifies around the world, it is clear that if we truly want to deliver health, wellbeing, and dignity for all, women must be front and center in the emergency responses now and post-pandemic. This summer course will examine the Covid-19 crisis effect on women and the historical, cultural, and social reasons why women, despite their majority in many other sectors of life, are greatly affected by such disparities. Students will explore how the impacts of the pandemic are felt differently depending on one’s identity. Who has access--depending on class, race, and gender as well as age and ability--to care and who does not? Who is taking up the burdens of care and how is that form of leadership valued and supported? The course will also identify solutions that exist for individuals and groups, and what has been done historically and presently to improve the path to leadership for women during a global crisis. Widening the lens, this course will also look at female leaders handling the coronavirus pandemic. How is their leadership different from male leaders? What lessons can we take from both, including solutions for a number of areas and groups? As a Network/ELAS course, this seminar will provide students with the unique opportunity to bring theory and practice together in a very immediate sense by connecting with women and partner institutions throughout the global network to share their experiences on the frontlines and allowing students to submit a women empowerment project proposal with the goal of supporting women networks within their communities and/or networks front and center in the emergency responses now and post-pandemic.
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