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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... on the sources of the female to male ratio (i.e. size of gender gap) in schooling ...........197 Table 9-3. Estimate of the effect of Muslim composition on the size of the female to male ratio in primary schooling (i.e. gender gap), ...
Marcia Greenberg Challenging the Accepted Approach The primary purpose of this chapter is to apply some analytical tools from the fields of law and development to assess common practices of women's rights advocacy.
As will be explained below, the primary concern is that the liberal legal model fails to take account of cultural differences. Examples taken from African women's organizations show how components of their programs reflect an approach ...
Yet problems may arise when new laws become the primary focus.10 While that was better, it still struck me that it was not good enough. It seemed still that pressures to achieve measurable changes within the funding periods risked ...
Placing primary attention on state-enacted laws tends to ignore the fact that people can always continue practices despite laws (such as in rural areas where there is little awareness of, or compliance with, the laws).