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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A Gender Links survey of six southern African countries ties women's increased representation to a proportional representation (PR) electoral system and party-based gender quotas or reserved seats for women. Moreover, the survey also ...
The four countries that met or nearly met the SADC target (included among the six below) all use some kind of voluntary party-based quota or special seats. The six countries discussed in this chapter more or less conform to the ...
In Tanzania, not marked by the kind of conflict experienced in Uganda or Rwanda, women activists from the Tanzania Gender Networking Project have monitored closely the reserved seat system, put in place following the 1992 political ...
the Chamber of Deputies be composed of 80 members—53 elected by universal suffrage plus 24 women members (30 percent of the total) elected from the provinces and the city of Kigali (two representatives from each); in addition two seats ...
In addition to those 74 seats, women in Uganda were directly elected to 14 constituency seats in the national legislature and one more woman was elected to an additional seat for the army for a total of 89 parliamentary seats (27.6 ...