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Sobre o conteúdo
As we see American women coming into positions of economic and political influence, we start to wonder: why now? The Women Have Always Worked MOOC, offered in four parts, explores the history of women in America and introduces students to historians’ work to uncover the place of women and gender in America’s past.
The 19th Amendment–which gave women the right to vote–is our launching point for course three. We will explore the new cultural and economic opportunities that emerged for women in the 1920s, while gaining an understanding of how racial, familial, and legal structures placed constraints on that independence. We'll conclude course three with a look into World War II and how the massive changes wrought by women's essential contributions to the war effort provided new opportunities and new barriers that emerged over the twenty-year interwar period.
Programa de estudos
- How the the passage of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, which formally established women’s right to vote, impacted women's political participation and created competing understandings of equality in the 1920s
- How the emergence of two different groups of feminists (equality feminists and social feminists) came about
- How the laws of coverture, domesticity, and citizenship continued to constrain women's independence in the early 20th Century
- How protective labor legislation sealed women's positions in a segmented labor force
- How Depression-era unemployment impacted masculine identities, family life, and marriage
- How women played a critical role in strikes to improve working conditions
- How attitudes about married women and women with children in the workforce changed from the Great Depression to World War II
- How women experienced discrimination based on gender and race while working in military industries and serving in the military
- How efforts to return women to the home after the War supported men's reentry into the workforce and the idea of the American standard of living
Instrutores
Alice Kessler-Harris
R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of American History Emerita
Columbia University
Nick Juravich
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in Women's History
New-York Historical Society
Columbia University Center for Teaching and Learning
New-York Historical Society
Intelligent Television
Criador do conteúdo
A Universidade de Columbia é uma universidade privada situada em Morningside Heights, na parte noroeste do bairro de Manhattan, em Nova Iorque (Estados Unidos). As suas origens remontam ao King's College, fundado em 1754 pelo rei Jorge II da Grã-Bretanha. É uma das mais antigas instituições de ensino superior dos Estados Unidos e faz parte do grupo Ivy League, que reúne oito das mais antigas, mais famosas, mais prestigiadas e mais elitistas universidades do país.
Columbia é uma das universidades mais selectivas e prestigiadas do mundo. A taxa de admissão foi de 5,1% em 2019, comparável à de Harvard e Stanford. Classificada em primeiro lugar nos Estados Unidos em matéria de investigação, é a sexta no mundo (quarta nos Estados Unidos) no ranking CUWR das 1000 melhores universidades do mundo e a oitava no Shanghai University Rankings.
Plataforma
EdX est une plateforme d'apprentissage en ligne (dite FLOT ou MOOC). Elle héberge et met gratuitement à disposition des cours en ligne de niveau universitaire à travers le monde entier. Elle mène également des recherches sur l'apprentissage en ligne et la façon dont les utilisateurs utilisent celle-ci. Elle est à but non lucratif et la plateforme utilise un logiciel open source.
EdX a été fondée par le Massachusetts Institute of Technology et par l'université Harvard en mai 2012. En 2014, environ 50 écoles, associations et organisations internationales offrent ou projettent d'offrir des cours sur EdX. En juillet 2014, elle avait plus de 2,5 millions d'utilisateurs suivant plus de 200 cours en ligne.
Les deux universités américaines qui financent la plateforme ont investi 60 millions USD dans son développement. La plateforme France Université Numérique utilise la technologie openedX, supportée par Google.
