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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... quota for local elections shortly after independence (Bauer 2006, 100-101). In South Africa women activists and exiles came together in the early 1990s to form a national women's organization ... Quotas in Eastern and Southern Africa 11.
... quotas for their candidate lists for National Assembly elections, the ANC before the 1994 election and Frelimo at its sixth party congress in 1992 (Myakayaka-Manzini 2004; Abreu 2004b). Subsequently, both parties committed themselves to ...
... quota system by providing for a number of reserved seats in the national parliament equal to the number of districts in the country.7 The women MPs from the district seats are now elected from all ... Quotas in Eastern and Southern Africa 13.
... quotas used—partybased gender quotas in southern Africa and reserved seats for women in east Africa?12 Rwanda has the greatest number of women in parliament of any country in the world—48.8 percent—since its 2003 election, the first ...
... quotas Looking in more detail at party-based quotas, we note that in Mozambique and South Africa a specific combination has led to the achievement of more than 30 percent women in national legislatures: voluntary (though internally ...