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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... problems with the reserved seat system in Uganda, in particular with the way that district women MPs are elected, have been identified. At a most fundamental level, Anne Marie Goetz argues, the 'add-on' mechanism used in Uganda, whereby ...
... problems of women and children at the local level, and were considered more likely to represent “women in particular.” In Tanzania and Uganda there is a concern about the impact of reserved seats on women's chances of winning directly ...
... problem professionally, noting where the issues are not only programmatic but also disciplinary as they arise from the roles played by lawyers engaged in the field of international development. Some personal reflections that illustrate ...
... problem lay. The first arose in the course of research for a consultancy in Mali in 2001,9 when the author learned of efforts by women's organizations to enact a new family law. Women's rights advocates had worked on drafting the law ...
... problems may arise when new laws become the primary focus.10 While that was better, it still struck me that it was not good enough. It seemed still that pressures to achieve measurable changes within the funding periods risked ...