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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... political transitions in the post-conflict period, women activists and their organizations inserted themselves into the processes of crafting new constitutions and drafting new laws that provided the legal foundations and political ...
... political power and decision-making by 2005 (with a clear emphasis on national legislatures). The four countries that met or nearly met the SADC target (included among the six below) all use some kind of voluntary party-based quota or ...
... political independence, and South Africa from decades of struggle for a democratic and non-racial South Africa.5 In all three cases women were part and parcel of the conflicts (Urdang 1989, Becker 1995, Britton 2005). In the latter two ...
... political transition with amendments to its constitution in 1992 that proscribed a one-party political system and commenced the transition to a multiparty political system. Rwanda's transition came on the heels of an aborted democratic ...
... political power (Longman 2006, 138). In Tanzania, not marked by the kind of conflict experienced in Uganda or Rwanda, women activists from the Tanzania Gender Networking Project have monitored closely the reserved seat system, put in ...