Power, Gender and Social Change in AfricaGender 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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... Malawi) United Nations Development Program United National Population Fund UN High Commission for Refugees UN Research Institute for Social Development Ukimwi Orphans Assistance U.S. Agency for International Development Uganda Women ...
SOCIAL. CHANGE. IN. AFRICA. Muna Ndulo and Margaret Grieco The importance of recognizing the significance of gender in assessing power relationships and access to resources—including education, wagebased employment, mental and physical ...
Chapter three, while taking a case study perspective, discusses political leadership and social transformation. Chapter four examines gender and its importance in the development process by looking at the economic roots of African ...
have ruling parties with social democratic inclinations, or both (Morna 2004b).2 Clearly, gender-based electoral quotas are key to increasing women's legislative representation with the factors cited in the studies above determining ...
This is about translating international and regional declarations of norms, treaties, covenants or protocols into positive social, economic and political changes in women's lives.4 The 28 Chapter Two.