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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... Rape Act that prescribes minimum sentences for rape and places more emphasis on the rights of rape victims , and the 2002 Communal Land Reform Bill that protects women wishing to remain on their land in the event of their husband's ...
... rape systematically to strip women of their economic and political assets . Women's assets reside in the first ... rape of Tutsi women ( New York Times Magazine 15 Sept. 2002 , 83-89 , 116 , 125 , 130- 132 ) and is currently facing ...
... rape , their families , feminists and humanitarian workers has been the culture of impunity and the total lack of channels of redress . This situation is changing and there is hope at the end of the tunnel . Following the discovery that ...
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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