Power, Gender, and Social Change in AfricaMuna Ndulo, Margaret Grieco Gender plays a hugely significant and too often under-considered role in predicting how accessible resources such as education, wage-based employment, physical and mental health care, adequate nutrition and housing will be to an individual or community. According to a 2001 World Bank report titled Engendering Developmentâ "Through Gender Equality in Rights, Resources, and Voice, enormous disparities exist between men and women in terms of basic rights and the power to determine the future, both in Africa and around the globe. A better understanding of the links between gender, public policy and development outcomes would allow for more effective policy formulation and implementation at many levels. This book, through its discussion of the challenges, achievements and lessons learned in efforts to attain gender equality, sheds light on these important issues. The book contains chapters from an interdisciplinary group of scholars, including sociologists, economists, political scientists, scholars of law, anthropologists, historians and others. The work includes analysis of strategic gender initiatives, case studies, research, and policies as well as conceptual and theoretical pieces. With its format of ideas, resources and recorded experiences as well as theoretical models and best practices, the book is an important contribution to academic and political discourse on the intricate links between gender, power, and social change in Africa and around the world. |
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... World Bank's Land Policies for Growth and Poverty Reduction ( 2003 ) sees land as a key asset for the rural and urban poor and emphasizes ' productive ' use of land and efficiency viewed in terms of profitability . The Bank's past ...
... World Bank's intention that a land market be developed , including in Africa . Seeing land as an ' asset ' indicates ... World Bank Report : the Bank's failure to fully disaggregate the notion of a unified ' household ' despite intensive ...
... World Bank . 2001. World Development Indicators . World Bank CD - Rom . ' Africa Region Gender and Law Program 2006 Stocktaking , Design of G & L Impact Evaluation Framework Terms of Reference . ' 1988. Education in Sub - Saharan Africa ...
Contents
Powerful Mothers and Equal Rights | 60 |
The Economic Roots of African Womens Political Participation | 77 |
Activisim Scholarship and Gender | 94 |
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