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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Moreover, the issues are not additive in scope, but multiplicative. For example,
underdevelopment is not a singular concern, but reflective of the overlap of
educational, health, economic, and environmental factors. The contributions to
this book ...
It has been well documented that poverty— especially extreme poverty all over
the world—is a very serious and complex issue and that gender is one of its most
critical dimensions. A review of progress since the1985 Nairobi UN World ...
In response Emang Basadi switched to a direct electoral strategy: if men in
government were unresponsive to women's issues, they would replace them with
women—and not just any women, but women who were “gender-sensitive.
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