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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... female intellectuals.” Opposition parties, by contrast, did not define a mechanism for selecting women to their reserved seats, according to Meena, leaving open the possibility of abuse: “This introduces into the political system the ...
... female—are directly elected and none has a constituency beyond the party. In both cases, women MPs and women activists worry about the power of political parties—ever the gatekeepers—in determining which women are elected to parliament ...
... Female MPs by 2005 (The East African, 18 May) www.fairvote.org/pr/global/tanzania women.htm . In many ways, Burundi is an interesting combination of both systems. The country has a bicameral parliament with a 30 percent gender quota for ...
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