Universities worldwide adopt gender studies – so should the corporate world - Building Gender Balanced Business

Encompassing elements of sociology, economics and political science, gender studies delve into the reasons and the solutions to all kinds of conflicts.

• Originally, gender studies considered roles and behavioral patterns connected with gender.
• Over time, the discipline evolved to include class and race studies and embedded itself in surprising fields like technological development.
• Picking these studies does not necessarily lead to gender related work.
• Because gender studies revolves around conflicts and the relations between conflicts, they can be applied to almost anything.
• For this reason, the subject is impacting both the students and the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
• One should not assume that women are the only ones drawn to the discipline. * The introductory courses offered at MIT are always filled by a gender balanced audience.
• The interest in, and success of, gender studies is highlighted by a government funded research center in Sweden. Inaugurated in 2006, GEXcel was meant to be a five year program but is now on its way to becoming permanent.

The New York Times reports