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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... advocacy and mobilization are necessary to counter the influence and power of political parties, whether women are elected on party lists or in special seats. All too often actual political strategies are collapsed into a single demand ...
... while only 54 percent of women MPs found them to be very important (Schwartz 2004, 43). CHAPTER TWO WOMEN'S RIGHTS ADVOCACY VERSUS GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMING: Bauer: Electoral Gender Quotas in Eastern and Southern Africa 25.
... advocacy. The initial hypothesis is that generally accepted legalistic approaches for ensuring respect of women's rights may be rooted in expectations that do not hold true in all contexts. This chapter explores how women's rights ...
... Back? This chapter takes as a given the global objective of realizing respect for women's rights and gender equality.1 The issue under examination is not the goal, but rather the means of achieving that Greenberg: Women's Rights Advocacy ...
... advocacy for women's rights. The achievements in Beijing, on the other hand, were most certainly a result of women's rights advocacy around the world. From the International Women's Year conference in Mexico City in 1975 that launched ...