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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... impact of traditional values on gender relations. Women face some of the greatest challenges in the labor and production sectors. Chapters thirteen and fourteen focus on land rights and agricultural sustainability and women's ...
... impact on women MPs and women's representation (Morna 2004b, 60). In east Africa the mechanisms used to gender parliaments have differed from those in southern Africa. In Uganda a first-past-the-post electoral system (FPTP) has been ...
... impact of reserved seats on women's chances of winning directly elected constituency seats. Indeed, the availability of plenty of reserved seats takes the pressure off political parties to nominate women to stand in constituency seats ...
... impact of women legislators. Finally, Longman charges that the lack of political freedom at all levels of government in Rwanda limits the ability of women to influence policy. “Until the Rwandan government shows greater tolerance for ...
... impacts for short term results. Women's organizations might be empowered, but Americans would still be teaching them “our tricks”, i.e. those that are employed and work (we think) in the United States. The last reflection dates back a ...