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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... majority of the poor, the unemployed, and the dispossessed. Since their adoption the Millennium Development Goals (or MDGs) have taken center stage in the development discourse. Progress in every sector is measured against the eight ...
... majority of women MPs. According to Richard Matland (2006, 289) this is a general risk of reserved seat systems—that the system relegates representatives in women's seats to an inferior status and diminishes their legislative ...
... majority systems each party nominates only one candidate in each constituency and women candidates are typically viewed as more risky than men candidates.) Quotas are more easily implemented under PR systems 4 6 7 8 9 10 11 than under ...
Raj Bardouille, Margaret Grieco. 7 8 9 10 11 than under plurality-majority systems, and 'contagion'–parties adopting each other's policies–is more likely under a PR system. The constitution also provides for a gender quota at the local ...
... majority of voters but are often reluctant to vote for women. Voter education programs attempt to convince voters that women have “the capacity to lead,” that voters' choices will materially impact on their own and their families' lives ...