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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... Land Reform Bill that protects women wishing to remain on their land in the event of their husband's death. In South Africa women MPs have similarly provided the leadership for a range of legislative acts: the 1996 Choice on the ...
... land policy) An engendered law, policy-making and implementation process in Uganda Signature and ratification of the Additional Protocol on the African Charter on People and Human Rights and the ILO Convention on workers with family ...
... land to assert their own interests against colonial authorities. That is, African constructions of women as “mothers” have historically been sources of power for women to use to protect their own interests as “women,” as well as acting ...
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