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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... international forums such as the United Nations conferences on women), has also played a significant role. International IDEA's (Ballington 2004a) study of women's increased electoral representation across Africa draws many of the same ...
... international experiences in 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 ...
... International endorsement of the Platform for Action (the “Platform”) seemed to establish long-sought recognition of a simple proposition: Women's rights are Human rights. Yet “Post-Beijing” actions at the national and local levels have ...
... International and Regional women's rights conventions, especially tracking CEDAW • Advocacy for the ratification of international and regional conventions • Gender Audit of laws and key policies and instruments relating to women ...
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