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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... Program; and the Gender and Global Change Program. Thanks also to the Conference Committee composed of Josephine Allen, Margaret Washington, Mechthild Nagel, Judith Van Allen and Margaret Grieco. The conference would not have been ...
... Program Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Society for International Development Sudan Liberation Army Small to Medium Enterprise State-owned Enterprise Sub-Saharan Africa transnational feminist networks Tanzania Women Lawyers Association ...
... programs and activities continue to elude those charged with the responsibility of accounting to the public as the gap between policy and practice widens. The failure to make progress is apparent not only within countries but in the ...
... program, and no process to enable the women's movement to review candidates” (2003, 120). Aili Mari Tripp finds several disadvantages as well to the use of electoral colleges for selecting women to the district seats. For example, she ...
... programs typically rely on activities grounded in liberal legal assumptions. The alternative, it suggests, is to re-frame the objective: from one that is technical, i.e. “fixing” legal systems to incorporate laws and improve enforcement ...