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 only “have negative implications for the perceived legitimacy, and ultimately the political effectiveness, of women politicians” (2003, 118). The add-on mechanism, in Goetz's view, reinforces a politics of patronage: it ...
... seats. As Meena (2004, 85) asks, “When women and gender-related issues are in conflict with the party interest, what position will these women [in reserved seats] take?” A concern expressed by many women activists in Tanzania is the ...
... seats has declined. By contrast, in Rwanda women in constituency seats make up nearly half of all women in the Chamber of Deputies (15 of 39), bringing the percentage of women far above the country's 30 percent quota to almost 50 ...
... seats, in addition to their special seats, though those numbers remain very small and seem to grow at a snail's pace. In the meantime, they also create a two-tiered system of women's representation with those in special seats often ...
... seats) Sept 1988 12/70 17.1% Oct 1990 28/249 11.2% Sept 2003 39/80 48.8% Dec 2005 97/319 30.4% Oct 1995 45/275 16.4% Oct 2000 61/275 22.2% Uganda 1980 (includes 1/126 June 1996 June 2001 Feb 2006 reserved) 0.7% 50/276 75/305 89/322 18.1 ...