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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... ...............8 2. Women's Rights Advocacy versus Gender and Development Programming: Complementary or Alternative Strategies? Marcia Greenberg......................................................................................
... 22 Table 2-2. 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 ...............................
... advocate Unity Dow augmented the all-male ranks of the Botswana Supreme Court. Baleka Mbete was South African Speaker of the National Assembly. Annonciata Mukamugema of Rwanda has played a leadership role with AVEGA, the widow's network ...
... advocacy and in gender and development planning. Customary norms that impede women, such as the inability to own or inherit land, coupled with polygamy and low marriage ages, must be tackled to permit participation in the private sector ...
... advocacy and lobbying skills of women (Kanakuze 2004, 96).8 Mona Lena Krook (2005) suggests that the RPF government was also positively influenced by its exile experiences in Uganda and its contacts with South Africa's ANC.9 Rwanda now ...