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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... Human Rights, Conflict, and Economic Empowerment 11. Imagine All the Women Power, Gender and the Transformative Possibilities of the South African Constitution Penelope E. Andrews ...
... Human Rights Advocate Step by Step ..............................................35 Table 8-1. Questions on gender issues: leaving husband or doing things without husband's knowledge .............................
... human rights 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 ...
... rights 9 by devising the Women's Protocol10 of the African Charter on Human and People's Rights. The Banjul Charter's protocol is the first regional treaty devoted specifically to women's rights. It is the first covenant to explicitly ...
... Human and People's Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (11 July 2003), http://www.africa-union.org/home/ Welcome.htm. See African Charter on Human and People's Rights (adopted 27 June 1981, entered into force 21 October 1986), OAU ...