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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On the other hand , Darkwah ( 2002 ) noted that trade liberalization linked to
adjustment programs advantaged some Ghanaian women by streamlining their
access to imported goods such as clothing . In fact , women who worked in the
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Over 93 percent of the women had heard a talk at the clinic , hospital or on the
radio about how people can protect themselves against AIDS , and 78 percent
noted that someone from the health surveillance system had come to their homes
to ...
... an example from my interviews , some formal - sector women business -
persons ( members of the NGAEs discussed below ) , noted that donors and
some scholars " lump ” them together with micro - entrepreneurs in the informal
sector .
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Powerful Mothers and Equal Rights | 60 |
The Economic Roots of African Womens Political Participation | 77 |
Activisim Scholarship and Gender | 94 |
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