Power, Gender, and Social Change in AfricaMuna Ndulo, Margaret Grieco Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2009 - 397 pages 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 Developmentā "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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... quotas are key to increasing women's legislative representation with the factors cited in the studies above determining whether or not quotas will be adopted - and what types of quotas will be adopted . For purposes of comparison , it ...
... quotas Looking in more detail at party - based quotas , we note that in Mozambique and South Africa a specific combination has led to the achievement of more than 30 percent women in national legislatures : voluntary ( though internally ...
... quotas . Dahlerup ( 2004 , 18 ) notes , however , that in Scandinavia quotas were never mandated by law ; rather they were adopted by political parties ( and not all parties used them ) . Further , these party - based quotas were not ...
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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