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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... role in the passage of the 2003 New Family Law. Women MPs and their allies in civil society have also been instrumental in creating a range of state institutions—national machineries—for the advancement of women and the achievement of ...
... role in public affairs. Simply put, the 'face' of politics is not quite as masculine as it is in every other southern African country.” Tripp (forthcoming) identifies four types of quotas used in Africa: reserved seats which determine ...
... roles, the allocation of resources and power, and gender equality within development programs—such as those focused on governance, economic growth, health issues or natural resource management6—may be another.7 A sub-hypothesis of this ...
... roles played by lawyers engaged in the field of international development. Some personal reflections that illustrate the ... role of women's rights advocacy in the United States. Personal Reflections: Law versus Development Perspectives ...
... role for state-enacted legislation or a capacity to implement and enforce. Some practices and behaviors may not be determined by laws (even in the United States). In Africa, there are historic strata: norms and practices that date back ...