About this course
When US activists started using the #MeToo hashtag (as created by Tarana Burke) to speak out against sexual harassment, they joined, and then helped propel, a global movement.
On every continent, women are using the new tools of social media to confront one of the oldest barriers to equality: the threat of violence, including sexual harassment, as a tool of male supremacy.
In this course, produced by the Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality & Anti-Discrimination Law, 48 contributors from 28 countries spanning every continent but Antarctica tell the story of how social media has driven a social movement against sexual harassment and how the law has responded, often by helping men to push back.
About this course
The COVID-19 pandemic has taken millions of lives and caused many millions of people to lose their jobs and/or businesses. It is commonplace for people to say, “We’re all in this together.” But, we’re not. In fact, the impact has been disproportionately felt by people who are already disadvantaged by reasons of race, ethnicity, gender, disability, poverty, age, and intersections of disfavored identity.
This online course on COVID-19 and Global Inequalities examines the pandemic’s impact on racial, gender, wealth, and healthcare disparities, among others, through an international comparative lens.
The course is self-paced and goes for 5 weeks, featuring lectures delivered by professors from around the world.
The course is designed to foster understanding of equality law and theories of equality so that students can analyze different policy approaches to the pandemic.
