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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Raj Bardouille, Margaret Grieco. passing protective new laws (or removing discriminatory ones), pressing cases in the courts, and removing gender bias from legal and judicial institutions; and (2) that alternative guiding principles and ...
... Discrimination against Women [CEDAW]), feminists and gender equality advocates now find themselves struggling not only to ensure achievement of Millennium Development Goal #3 on Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment, but also that ...
... discrimination against women.” Such indicators raised concerns, however, in that they created pressure to get results in legislatures—which in the worst cases would mean that US NGO-implementing partners might feel compelled to lobby in ...
... discrimination. If one consulted a broader spectrum of society than had historically been the practice, i.e. if one asked women to identify their cultural aspirations, respecting women's rights was not an ideal of the “north” or the ...
... discriminatory behavior and practices, such emphasis on laws may lead to excluding other factors—such as education, religion, family norms—that may be more effective. The focus on advocacy—building individual and organizational capacity ...