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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Becoming a Human Rights Advocate Step by Step ..............................................35 Table 8-1. Questions on gender issues: leaving husband or doing things without husband's knowledge .
On the question of strategies to be employed in the achievement of gender equality, as Kofi Annan has observed in the report “In Larger Freedom: towards Development, Security and Human Rights for All,”8 ...
Under such circumstances, the question follows, will gender ever supersede party? Parliamentary women's caucuses that bring together women MPs across party lines have been mooted as one response to this concern. In all three countries, ...
As in Uganda, there is also the question of whose interests are served by the women in reserved seats. As Meena (2004, 85) asks, “When women and gender-related issues are in conflict with the party interest, what position will these ...
The question arises within the “Post-Beijing context”: the Fourth World Conference on Women, held in Beijing in 1995, was a historic milestone in global efforts for women's rights. The global scope, the level of participation, ...