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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... behavior. Once the true goal is gender equality and the primary focus is behaviors, then initiatives must target men as well as women—and strive for the transformation of socially-constructed roles, responsibilities and power ...
... behaviors. Rather than using social marketing like slogans, billboards, and jingles, and rather than promoting lobbying and public demonstrations, GAD might lead women's organizations to identify and use existing methods of transmitting ...
... , but targeted on the real problems of attitudes and behaviors. For southern women and lawyers who have ably mastered much of the law reform and advocacy tactics as “the” way to promote rights and achieve social change, this 54 Chapter Two.
... behaviors, resulting in respect for women's rights and gender equality. Notes 1 Beyond the women's suffrage movements in the United States and in the United Kingdom that date back to the nineteenth century, the 1948 United Nations ...
... behavior and practice of enforcing structures (e.g. the courts, police, hospitals) have little impact on [domestic violence] abuse unless complemented by cultural changes (personal empowerment, education and the development of critical ...