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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... ................. 155 9. Islam and Girl's Schooling in Sub-Saharan Africa: Exploring the Size and Sources of the Gender Gap in Education Fatou Jah .............................................................................
... Islamic law that would have resulted in their stoning for being pregnant outside of wedlock. Mamphela Ramphele, who began her career as an anti-apartheid activist, has been a managing director of the World Bank and Vice Chancellor of ...
... Islam and gender inequality in education and access and representation in higher education. Chapters eleven and twelve examine gender, human rights, customary law and the impact of traditional values on gender relations. Women face some ...
... Islamic clerics. The women, not believing that they were proposing a law that defied or undermined their own Islamic beliefs, were quite taken aback. Moreover, they had “followed instructions,” i.e. they had used the process they had ...
... Islamic law. Second, the legal recourse is limited, as recognized now by many programs, by issues of access—and access depends upon knowledge, economic resources, physical proximity and transportation (among other constraints) ...