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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... male ratio; i.e. size of the gender gap, in schooling) ...........................187 Table 9-2. Estimates of the effect of Muslim composition (sq. rt. of % Muslim) on the sources of the female to male ratio (i.e. size of gender gap) in ...
... male ratio in secondary schooling (i.e. gender gap), SSA............................................ 201 Table 9-5. Estimates of the effect of Muslim composition on the sources of the female to male ratio in schooling (i.e. gender gap) ...
... male ratio in schooling, SSA ................ 194 Figure 9-2. Gross and net effects of religion on the sources of the gender gap, SSA. ...........195 Figure 14-1. Movement within and between sectors by size/type of business ...
... male ranks of the Botswana Supreme Court. Baleka Mbete was South African Speaker of the National Assembly. Annonciata Mukamugema of Rwanda has played a leadership role with AVEGA, the widow's network in a country still coping with the ...
... male Presidents, legislators, business people, doctors, farmers, and activists to work alongside women to craft and implement the solutions addressed and implied by this book. It will take husbands and fathers as well as wives and ...