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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... report, Engendering Development through Gender Equality in Rights, Resources, and Voice,1 careful attention must be given in several critical areas. Central to this discussion is the fact that enormous disparities exist between men and ...
... report to the 2006 Commission on the Status of Women pointed out that “in no country in the world has women's full de jure and de facto equality been achieved.”4 A Gender Links Publication,5 “Missing the Mark? Audit of the Southern ...
... report was the way it dealt with—or more accurately failed to deal with—the women of Africa. On the question of strategies to be employed in the achievement of gender equality, as Kofi Annan has observed in the report “In Larger Freedom ...
... Report # 21776, Volume 1. Convention for the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women, adopted by the UN General Assembly 1979. 1993 World Conference on Human Rights, June 14–15, 1993, Vienna, Austria. Secretary ...
... reports/ 2329_A.htm). In Rwanda, as in southern Africa, the critical moment for increasing women's national legislative representation came with the drawing up of a new constitution. According to Judith Kanakuze (2004, 96), a transition ...