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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... Uganda Women Entrepreneurs Ltd. Women in Development Women and Development West Africa Enterprise Network Women in Law and Development in Africa Women's Legal Rights Initiative Women and Law in Southern Africa Women Living Under Muslim ...
... 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 national legislatures ...
... Uganda Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda have also experienced transitions in the past two decades. Uganda was first, with the National Resistance Movement (NRM) wresting power from the last in a series of dictatorial and military regimes in ...
... Uganda or Rwanda, women activists from the Tanzania Gender Networking Project have monitored closely the reserved seat system, put in place following the 1992 political transition, for its impact on women MPs and women's representation ...
... 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 Tanzania approaching or at 30 percent women in ...