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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... equality it contributes to research, informs teaching and activism, and encourages the exchange of ideas, resources and recorded experiences as well as sharing theoretical models and best practices for engaging the issues of power ...
... equality. The government was responding in part to pressure from women's organizations and networks that conducted a multi-pronged campaign to increase awareness, conduct training, evaluate indicators of equality and equity and ...
... equality platforms. Under such circumstances, the question follows, will gender ever supersede party? Parliamentary women's caucuses that bring together women MPs across party lines have been mooted as one response to this concern. In ...
... equality...but any woman who needs employment.” Goetz also contends that the 'add-on mechanism' used to elect district MPs influences the relationship between the Ugandan women's movement and women in office. Goetz argues that the ...
... Equality Act that makes women and men equal before the law in marriage, the 2000 Combating of Rape Act that prescribes minimum sentences for rape and places more emphasis on the rights of rape victims, and the 2002 Communal Land Reform ...