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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... organizations have exerted considerable pressure on political parties since before the 1999 election. Like South Africa, Namibia has an active 50/50 campaign, and a 50/50 bill has been drafted and presented to parliament. Still ...
... organizations and networks that conducted a multi-pronged campaign to increase awareness, conduct training, evaluate indicators of equality and equity and strengthen the advocacy and lobbying skills of women (Kanakuze 2004, 96).8 Mona ...
... organizations] and female intellectuals.” Opposition parties, by contrast, did not define a mechanism for selecting women to their reserved seats, according to Meena, leaving open the possibility of abuse: “This introduces into the ...
... organizations came together to play a crucial role in the passage of the 2003 New Family Law. Women MPs and their allies in civil society have also been instrumental in creating a range of state institutions—national machineries—for the ...
... organizations while others such as Elisabeth Powley (2004) have argued that “the government could be using the inclusion of women and youth as a means of diverting attention from the absence of ethnic pluralism.” Longman (2006, 140-141) ...