This interdisciplinary unit exposes students to a variety of perspectives on women and work. In particular, it seeks to make explicit some of the means by which assumptions about 'essential' differences between women and men impact on women's experience in the workplace for example, gendered assumptions about skills and knowledge; traditional and 'natural' (even universal) roles; inequity in the status and reward for labour; privileging of certain qualities and pursuits over others (brain work over manual work, work in financial spheres over 'caring' work). This unit is assessed by short written tasks and an essay.