About This Course

Focus is on gender in Thailand. Gender issues and gender representation in Thailand. Inequality between men and women in Thailand. Rights guaranteed by law. Actual treatment of women. Lower status in workplace and in public space. Human trafficking, sex work, physical and psychological violence. Treatment of LGBT+ in Thailand. Rights of LGBT+. Inequality in law.

Learning Outcomes

• •Introduction to the concept of gender in Thailand
• •Diversities of genders in Thailand
• •History of women in Thailand
• •Gender representation in politics, economics, culture and religion in Thailand
• •LGBTQ+ rights in reality
• •Protection of LGBTIQ+ Rights in Thai law
• • Thailand’s Implementation of The Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)