Power, Gender and Social Change in AfricaRaj Bardouille, Margaret Grieco Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009 M03 26 - 359 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 Development—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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... Botswana Supreme Court. Baleka Mbete was South African Speaker of the National Assembly. Annonciata Mukamugema of Rwanda has played a leadership role with AVEGA, the widow's network in a country still coping with the ravaging effects of ...
... Botswana Democratic Party Black Feminist Anthropology Central African Republic Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women Center for Development and Population Activities Central European And Eurasian Law Initiative ...
... Botswana's of 11.1 percent, and Malawi's of 13.9 percent (since 2004). Women comprise 10.8 percent of Swaziland's parliament (since 2003), 11.7 percent of Lesotho's (since 2002), and 12.7 percent of Zambia's (since 2001) (see www.ipu ...
... Botswana, the Department of Women's Affairs in the Ministry of Labor and Home Affairs undertook a review of all laws affecting the status of women in Botswana. The review resulted in amendments to the Penal Code, Criminal Code ...
... Botswana, as well as legal aid services and a pre-trial handbook to help women understand the court process in cases of rape in South Africa. Recognizing, perhaps, the limitations of the law, however, they have also provided some ...