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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... Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa and Seychelles all had national legislatures that included from 25 to nearly 50 percent women, placing them in the top 30 nations worldwide in terms of numbers of women in national legislatures. This is ...
... two regionally-based alternatives and discusses their implications for women's political empowerment and social and economic advancement. The Southern African Cases: Mozambique, Namibia and South Africa Mozambique, 10 Chapter One.
Raj Bardouille, Margaret Grieco. The Southern African Cases: Mozambique, Namibia and South Africa Mozambique, Namibia and South Africa all emerged from conflict situations in the early 1990s—Mozambique from decades of civil war, Namibia ...
... Mozambique, meanwhile, the two ruling parties—the African National Congress (ANC) and the Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (Frelimo) respectively—adopted 30 percent quotas for their candidate lists for National Assembly elections ...
... Mozambique and South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda, the progress for women in parliament has been steady over the last three national elections (see Table 1-1), with Mozambique and South Africa above 30 percent women and Uganda and ...