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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... Rwanda has played a leadership role with AVEGA, the widow's network in a country still coping with the ravaging effects of the 1994 genocide. She has been given the African Women of Empowerment Project Award. Navanethen Pillay of South ...
... Rwanda. Electoral quota systems discussed herein are one way to jumpstart the kind of participation in the legislative sector that is needed to implement even the best constitution. Putting women in governmental positions in all three ...
... Rwandan Spirit Injuries, 7 Mich. J. Race & L. 247, 289 (2002). See Adrien Katherine Wing, Introduction to Global Critical Race Feminism: An International Reader 1 (Adrien Katherine Wing ed., NYU Press 2000). 6 See Strike the Rock ...
... Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, 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 ...
... Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda have also experienced transitions in the past two decades. Uganda was first, with the ... Rwanda's transition came on the heels of an aborted democratic opening, war, and the genocide of up to one million ...