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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... percent quota)—69 district-based seats and five seats from among the 25 reserved for workers, the youth, the disabled and the army (Bauer forthcoming). In addition to those 74 seats, women in Uganda were directly elected to 14 ...
... percent of all members of the National Assembly must be women” in Tanzania (www.ipu.org/parlinee/reports/2337_A.htm), the seats reserved for women only total 82—a 25.3 percent quota. In Tanzania too, there is concern about the mechanism ...
... percentage of women far above the country's 30 percent quota to almost 50 percent. Still for Rwanda, Longman (2006, 148-149) also reports a perception that women MPs are serving the ruling party rather than the women's groups that ...
... percentage of women MPs to 26.9 percent (21/78). Source: Inter-Parliamentary Union: women in parliaments, women in politics database, parline database; www.ipu.org. Does not take into account changes subsequent to an election, except ...
... percent of seats in parliament, a result of socio-economic developments over time. In a new study, Tripp (forthcoming) finds that the most important factor accounting for high percentages of national-level women legislators is whether ...