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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... Credit Associations African Studies Association Association for Women's Rights in Development Organization for women's human rights in Nigeria Botswana Democratic Party Black Feminist Anthropology Central African Republic Convention ...
... for International Development Sudan Liberation Army Small to Medium Enterprise State-owned Enterprise Sub-Saharan Africa transnational feminist networks Tanzania Women Lawyers Association United Democratic Front (political party, ...
... dominant) political parties to adopt the strategies and mechanisms that led to women's increased representation. ... to a proportional representation (PR) electoral system and party-based gender quotas or reserved seats for women.
have ruling parties with social democratic inclinations, or both (Morna 2004b).2 Clearly, gender-based electoral ... met the SADC target (included among the six below) all use some kind of voluntary party-based quota or special seats.
In South Africa and Mozambique, meanwhile, the two ruling parties—the African National Congress (ANC) and the ... the ANC before the 1994 election and Frelimo at its sixth party congress in 1992 (Myakayaka-Manzini 2004; Abreu 2004b).