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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... Empowerment 11. Imagine All the Women Power, Gender and the Transformative Possibilities of the South African ... Empowering Women in the African Entrepreneurial Landscape Micro-entrepreneurs to Business Globalists in the Formal and ...
... empowerment. I regard the problems intersectional and multidimensional concerning in nature. African5 In other women's words, the issues matters as intertwine and cannot be regarded in isolation. Moreover, the issues are not additive in ...
... Empowerment Project Award. Navanethen Pillay of South Africa has been appointed the United Nations High Commissioner of Human Rights. In Nigeria, Safiya Husseini and Amina Lawal dared challenge an Islamic law that would have resulted in ...
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... empowerment when women do not have access to land, property and credit. Similarly, there is little point in talking about ABC in relation to AIDS when women do not have the choice to abstain. This book contains chapters from an ...