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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... increasing emphasis placed on women's rights being at the core of any strategy to achieve equality between women and men, in other words, prioritizing the strategic over the practical. Thus, for example, it is pointless to talk about ...
... increased use of quotas across Africa reflects a renewed interest in formal politics and political institutions among African women's movements. Shireen Hassim and Sheila Meintjes (2005, 4) argue that efforts to break down the barriers ...
... increased representation. Finally, a global women's movement, to which many African women were exposed in the course of conflict (and to which they contributed substantially in a variety of international forums such as the United ...
... increasing women's legislative representation with the factors cited in the studies above determining whether or not ... increased the number of women MPs using a PR electoral system and voluntary political party-based quotas. The three ...
... increased participation in politics in part because of their participation in the armed struggle that brought him and his movement to power. In Rwanda, women were prominent among the civil society activists who pressured government for ...