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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... rural men and women, young and old. Thus it is the “how” that introduces the questions and concepts of “law and development”, i.e. of how law-related advocacy functions in contexts different from that of America or [Western] Europe. Is ...
... rural, educated to illiterate—accounts indicate that women do not want to go to court over such issues. Most often, they utilize other coping strategies—from turning to neighbors and friends, to seeking a Shelter, to leaving altogether ...
... rural areas (see, e.g. WLR, p. 12]. Untold numbers of projects do legal literacy training for women in cities and in rural areas, for women with education and women who are illiterate. Finding that “public awareness” targeted at women ...
... rural villages to prepare and mobilize in the face of approaching natural disasters. The programs could have been structured within existing gender roles, such as working with women on preparing children and food, and with men on ...
... rural voters, women as well as men, would support it. In response Emang Basadi switched to a direct electoral strategy: if men in government were unresponsive to women's issues, they would replace them with women—and not just any women ...