Power, Gender and Social Change in AfricaGender 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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Radical Citizenship: Powerful Mothers and Equal Rights Judith Van Allen...........................................................................................60 4. The Economic Roots of African Women's Political Participation Claire ...
The review resulted in amendments to the Penal Code, Criminal Code, Employment Act, Citizenship Act, and Public Service Act (WLRI, p. 11). In USAID's earlier women's rights program, Global Women in Politics (GWIP) reported that its ...
The intent of the workshop was to try and assist each of the three groups with possible skills that would help them find more effective ways to lobby for legal reform in the area of wills and inheritance, marriage, divorce, citizenship ...
... but also enriched and strengthened by inclusion of voices and leadership from the South. 33 34 35 36 37 CHAPTER THREE RADICAL CITIZENSHIP: POWERFUL MOTHERS AND EQUAL RIGHTS Judith Greenberg: Women's Rights Advocacy 59.
Judith Van Allen Liberal democratic citizenship, in many times and places rather taken for granted, is today widely contested as globalizing capitalism drives increasing migration and new communities challenge old assumptions about ...