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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... Movement within and between sectors by size/type of business.........................319 Figure 14-2. Some demographic characteristics ...................................................................... 320 Figure 14-3. Types of ...
... Movement Millenium Development Goals Malawi Diffusion and Ideational Change Project Maternal Mortality Rate Members of Parliament Médecins sans frontiers Landless People's Movement National Democratic Institute New Partnership for ...
... movements. Shireen Hassim and Sheila Meintjes (2005, 4) argue that efforts to break down the barriers to women's equal political participation “signal that there is room for women's agency to shape politics, and that formal political ...
... movements and organizations and the pressure they exerted on (usually dominant) political parties to adopt the strategies and mechanisms that led to women's increased representation. Finally, a global women's movement, to which many ...
... movement (Morna 2004b, 53). In Mozambique in the early 1990s women began to organize themselves into many new groups with the express purpose of educating women voters at the grassroots level to participate effectively in all phases of ...