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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... : Activisim, Scholarship and Gender 5. Mobilizing for Change Locally and Globally African Women as Scholar-Activists in Feminist and Gender Studies Mary J. Osirim............................................................................
... Studies and Research Center; Cornell Institute for Public Affairs (CIPA); the Department of History; the Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program; and the Gender and Global Change Program. Thanks also to the Conference Committee ...
... Institute for Sustainable Development in Agriculture Female genital mutilation / female cutting Federation of Women Lawyers Kenya World Forum on Agrarian Reform First past the post (electoral system) Gender and Development Ghanaian ...
... Gender and Women's Studies for Africa's Transformation Project Home-based Enterprises Human Development Index of UNDP Juman immunodeficiency virus Human Poverty Index of UNDP Human Rights-Based Approach Human Rights Watch International ...
... gender equality: the element called parity?” He said he was reminded by ... gender equality, as Kofi Annan has observed in the report “In Larger Freedom ... studies, research, and policies as well as conceptual and theoretical pieces ...