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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... Africa's Burden Margaret Grieco ... Africa: Exploring the Size and Sources of the Gender Gap in Education Fatou Jah ... South African Constitution Penelope E. Andrews ...
... South African saying which is also the name of a modern play, “You strike ... Africa has been appointed the United Nations High Commissioner of Human ... Africa and the rest of the world. If we respect the knowledge gleaned from the text ...
Raj Bardouille, Margaret Grieco. 8 11 African Constitution. Perhaps one day, the U.S. will have an equality clause that includes gender and sexual orientation as South Africa does. 7 The South African equality clause also covers race ...
... South African Constitution Role Models for the U.S.,” 24 Harvard Blackletter J. 73 (2008); Adrien Katherine Wing, “The Fifth Anniversary of the South African Constitution: a Role Model on Sexual Orientation,” 26 Vermont L. Rev. 821 (2002).
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