Power, Gender and Social Change in AfricaGender 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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Putting women in governmental positions in all three branches is a necessary piece of the development puzzle. Additionally, more women must become involved outside the government sector in both women's rights advocacy and in gender and ...
... to 30 percent women in positions of political power and decision-making by 2005 (with a clear emphasis on national legislatures). The four countries that met or nearly met the SADC target (included among the six below) all use some ...
In Uganda, with already-existing contacts in the NRM, women activists in the late 1980s were invited by the new president to identify women leaders for leadership positions in government (Tripp 2006, 112). Sylvia Tamale (1999) argues ...
As Meena (2004, 85) asks, “When women and gender-related issues are in conflict with the party interest, what position will these women [in reserved seats] take?” A concern expressed by many women activists in Tanzania is the potential ...