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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... Activities for a Kenyan Woman ........................317 Table 14-3. NGAE Members Interviewed by Business Position and Business Acquisition...318 LIST OF FIGURES Figure 8-1. Location of Chinsapo on the viii Power, Gender and Social ...
... Activities Central European And Eurasian Law Initiative Community Property Association Commercial sex worker Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era Demographic and Health Surveys Development and Training Systems Economic ...
... activities continue to elude those charged with the responsibility of accounting to the public as the gap between policy and practice widens. The failure to make progress is apparent not only within countries but in the international ...
... activities grounded in liberal legal assumptions. The alternative, it suggests, is to re-frame the objective: from one that is technical, i.e. “fixing” legal systems to incorporate laws and improve enforcement, to one that is ...
... activities—from the legal literacy workshops and publications referenced above, to legal cases, lobbying for new laws, and demonstrations. The results of such initiatives have, in fact, led to some acknowledgement of the limitations of ...