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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... sexual orientation as South Africa does. 7 The South African equality clause also covers race, sex, pregnancy, marital status, ethnic or social origin, color, age, disability, religion, conscience, belief, culture, language and birth ...
... Sexual Orientation,” 26 Vermont L. Rev. 821 (2002). South African Const. art. 9 (1996). Wing, supra note 2. See Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People's Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (11 July 2003), http://www ...
... Sexuality Studies Program; and the Gender and Global Change Program. Thanks also to the Conference Committee composed of Josephine Allen, Margaret Washington, Mechthild Nagel, Judith Van Allen and Margaret Grieco. The conference would ...
... Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Society for International Development Sudan Liberation Army Small to Medium Enterprise State-owned Enterprise Sub-Saharan Africa transnational feminist networks Tanzania Women Lawyers Association United ...
... sexual corruption, thereby undermining the integrity of female candidates, even those who entered via a more transparent system” (2004, 84). As in Uganda, there is also the question of whose interests are served by the women in reserved ...