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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... interests their special mandate). With party-based quota systems as used in southern Africa there are no such distinctions; indeed no MPs—male or female—are directly elected and none has a constituency beyond the party. In both cases ...
... early 2006, in mid-2005 it abolished term limits for the presidency, thereby introducing the possibility of a return to “presidents for life.” 12 13 14 15 16 97 percent of women MPs found women's interests to 24 Chapter One.
... interests to be very important. Differences between 'quota women' and 'party women'were minimal (100 percent versus 93 percent). By contrast 83 percent of men MPs found political party interests to be very important while only 54 ...
... interest in non-state forms of legal and social ordering. A central question was therefore whether Americans were assuming both an idealized outcome—and the viability of others adopting or evolving into it.18 When considering common ...
... interests (economic, social, etc.) and ideology may prove more influential than the State's law. Extending such thinking about how social norms or signals may affect people's attitudinal or behavioral choices opens the way to ...