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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... Credit Associations African Studies Association Association for Women's Rights in Development Organization for women's human rights in Nigeria Botswana Democratic Party Black Feminist Anthropology Central African Republic Convention ...
... sans frontiers Landless People's Movement National Democratic Institute New Partnership for Africa's Development New Generation of African Entrepreneurs Non-government organization Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs ...
... for International Development Sudan Liberation Army Small to Medium Enterprise State-owned Enterprise Sub-Saharan Africa transnational feminist networks Tanzania Women Lawyers Association United Democratic Front (political party, ...
Moreover, the survey also finds that the countries with the highest proportion of women in politics have recently emerged from struggle or conflict situations, or have ruling parties with social democratic inclinations, or both (Morna ...
have ruling parties with social democratic inclinations, or both (Morna 2004b).2 Clearly, gender-based electoral quotas are key to increasing women's legislative representation with the factors cited in the studies above determining ...