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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... Mozambique and South Africa a specific combination has led to the achievement of more than 30 percent women in ... Mozambique and South Africa other parties have generally not followed the ruling parties' leads. [At the same time, it has ...
... Mozambique a sixmember team of women MPs (three each from the two main parties) has been working since 1997 to form a parliamentary women's caucus.13 Special or reserved seats Turning to special or reserved seats, in Uganda by the time ...
... Mozambique, Namibia and South Africa, authors in the Bauer and Britton (2006b) volume point to a long list of legislative accomplishments despite women's greater presence in those parliaments for only Bauer: Electoral Gender Quotas in ...
... Mozambique, women legislators and women's organizations came together to play a crucial role in the passage of the 2003 New Family Law. Women MPs and their allies in civil society have also been instrumental in creating a range of state ...
... Mozambique (none appointed) Namibia (excludes non-voting appointed)** South Africa (none appointed) Dec 1999 75/250 30.0% Nov 1999 18/72 25.0% Dec 2004 87/250 34.8% Nov 2004 18/72 25.0% Not Available Sept 1989 5/178 2.8% April 1994 100 ...