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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... women's rights 9 by devising the Women's Protocol10 of the African Charter ... female genital surgery. Thus, Africans did not limit themselves to the ... advocacy and in gender and development planning. Customary norms that impede ...
... while only 54 percent of women MPs found them to be very important (Schwartz 2004, 43). CHAPTER TWO WOMEN'S RIGHTS ADVOCACY VERSUS GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMING: Bauer: Electoral Gender Quotas in Eastern and Southern Africa 25.
... women's rights advocacy. The initial hypothesis is that generally accepted legalistic approaches for ensuring respect of women's rights may be rooted in expectations that do not hold true in all contexts. This chapter explores how women's ...
... women's rights, often undertaken by advocates not guided by or rooted in western concepts of law. It suggests an opportunity to apply the thinking from one field (law and development) to experience in another ... Women's Rights Advocacy 27.