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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... woman.................................................................................................................173 Table 8-3. General knowledge and attitudes about AIDS and condoms...............................174 Table 8-4 ...
... Woman ........................317 Table 14-3. NGAE Members Interviewed by Business Position and Business Acquisition...318 LIST OF FIGURES Figure 8-1. Location of Chinsapo on the viii Power, Gender and Social Change in Africa.
... woman, you strike the rock.” 6 Despite daunting circumstances, many African women exemplify strength and power. The first female President, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia, has joined the boys' club of leaders. Courageous human rights ...
... woman MP was largely responsible for the adoption of a gender quota for local elections shortly after independence (Bauer 2006, 100-101). In South Africa women activists and exiles came together in the early 1990s to form a national ...
... woman's) throughout their candidate lists (Myakayaka 2004; Disney 2006). Colleen Lowe Morna (2004, 62) argues that internal struggles to secure the ANC's 30 percent quota have been “a key mobilizing tool for women, and a critical ...