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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... reports/2337_A.htm), the seats reserved for women only total 82—a 25.3 percent quota. In Tanzania too, there is concern about the mechanism by which women are elected into reserved seats. For example, the methods by which parties select ...
... reports a perception that women MPs are serving the ruling party rather than the women's groups that support them. One informant told him: “The RPF [Rwandan Patriotic Front] focuses on diversity so that they can appear democratic even ...
... reports/2049.htm). Seychelles is another interesting case. In 2002, 29.4 percent of those elected to parliament were women; in 1998, 23.5 percent and in 1993, 27.2 percent–all without any kind of gender-based quota. According to Morna ...
... reports/2049.htm. Gender Links. Nd. 'Profile: Angelina Enoque—an MP growing in her job.' www.genderlinks.org.za/page.php?p_id=164 . According to the IPU (www.ipu.org/parline-e/reports/2337_A.htm) there are statutorily 323 members of the ...
... report notes that “implementation of women's human rights lies with the judiciary and within the wider judicial/legal system. The existence of laws does not in itself mean that women's legal rights will be implemented and enforced. It ...