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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... elected from all-female lists of candidates by male-dominated electoral colleges whose members are drawn from local councils and women's councils; by contrast the constituency MPs are elected by universal adult suffrage (Tamale 2004, 38) ...
... elected by universal suffrage plus 24 women members (30 percent of the total) elected from the provinces and the city of Kigali (two representatives from each); in addition two seats are reserved for the youth and one for the ...
... elected in the 1999 and 2004 elections (LeBeau and Dima 2005). In Namibia there has been some 'contagion' in the sense of smaller parties following the ruling party's lead in 'aiming' for more women, though in Mozambique and South ...
... elected to 14 constituency seats in the national legislature and one more woman was elected to an additional seat for the army for a total of 89 parliamentary seats (27.6 percent). Interestingly, there was fierce competition for some of ...
... elected them. Others critics argue that a small body such as an electoral college is especially susceptible to bribery and intimidation and other corrupt methods of persuasion. Moreover, there is a widespread feeling that the bodies ...