Power, Gender, and Social Change in AfricaGender 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 DevelopmentThrough 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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What do you have to do to get multilateralism to embrace even the simplest
element of gender equality : the element called parity ? " He said he was
reminded by extension of the Commission on Africa appointed by the British
Prime Minister ...
Further , the global shift of commitments from agreements such as the
environmental agreements in Rio , the population and development agreements
in Cairo , and the gender equality agreements in Beijing , to the Millennium
Development ...
69 See Penelope E . Andrews , Learning to Love After Learning to Harm :
PostConflict Reconstruction , Gender Equality and Cultural Values , supra note
55 . 70 lbid . For a very interesting reflection on the challenges to addressing
poverty as ...
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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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