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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... seats for women. Moreover, the survey also finds that the countries with the highest proportion of women in politics have recently emerged from struggle or conflict situations, or have ruling parties with social democratic inclinations ...
... seats for women. Indeed, gender-based electoral quotas may take different forms. In Africa they have largely been of two kinds: reserved or appointed seats intended to determine at least a minimum number of seats to be held by women, or ...
... seats for women were introduced during that election by expanding the Ugandan parliament to include extra seats for women only (one from each district in the country). In 1995 a revised constitution institutionalized the quota system by ...
... seats reserved for women (Longman 2006, 141). In Tanzania, a small number of 'special' seats for women existed during the single-party era, though not for the purpose of redressing historic imbalances, but rather with the goal of ...
... seats Turning to special or reserved seats, in Uganda by the time of the 2006 election there were 74 reserved seats for women out of a total 322 seats (a 22.9 percent quota)—69 district-based seats and five seats from among the 25 ...