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 legislative presence. Gretchen Bauer and Hannah E. Britton (2006a), in the introduction to a book based on dozens of interviews with women members of parliament (MPs) in five countries, find that these success stories share ...
... women's legislative representation with the factors cited in the studies above determining whether or not quotas ... MPs using a PR electoral system and voluntary political party-based quotas. The three east African cases have utilized a mix ...
... women activists from the Tanzania Gender Networking Project have monitored closely the reserved seat system, put in place following the 1992 political transition, for its impact on women MPs and women's representation (Morna 2004b, 60) ...
... (see Table 1-1), with Mozambique and South Africa above 30 percent women and Uganda and Tanzania approaching or at 30 percent women in parliament at middecade. In Namibia the percentage of women MPs doubled from the 14 Chapter One.
Raj Bardouille, Margaret Grieco. decade. In Namibia the percentage of women MPs doubled from the 1994 to 1999 election and then remained the same for the 2004 election (25 percent of voting members). In terms of which type of quota is ...