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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... Global Change Program. Thanks also to the Conference Committee composed of Josephine Allen, Margaret Washington, Mechthild Nagel, Judith Van Allen and Margaret Grieco. The conference would not have been possible without the hard work of ...
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... global efforts is the increasing emphasis placed on women's rights being at the core of any strategy to achieve equality between women and men, in other words, prioritizing the strategic over the practical. Thus, for example, it is ...
... global trend whereby women are using gender-based electoral quotas to take a “fast track” to equal legislative representation (Dahlerup and Freidenvall 2005). Rather than following the example of Scandinavia, where decades of socio ...
... global women's movement, to which many African women were exposed in the course of conflict (and to which they contributed substantially in a variety of international forums such as the United Nations conferences on women), has also ...