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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... party era, though not for the purpose of redressing historic imbalances, but rather with the goal of enhancing the representation of varied interests in a one-party regime (Meena 2004, 8283). Since the political transition in the early ...
... party in each country, with women required by the parties to be evenly dispersed throughout candidate lists (and the use of closed list PR electoral systems). In Namibia, by contrast, a number of political parties have aimed for, but ...
... party political system. Dominant-party systems make gender quotas “politically cheap (and therefore politically saleable)” in that “extending a quota to women does mean that some men will not get onto party lists, but with sufficient ...
... party platform or social program, and no process to enable the women's movement to review candidates” (2003, 120). Aili Mari Tripp finds several disadvantages as well to the use of electoral colleges for selecting women to the district ...
Raj Bardouille, Margaret Grieco. necessarily included in party constitutions. According to Ruth Meena (2004, 84), in 2000 only the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi “made its mechanism a little more competitive by allowing women party members ...