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. |
From inside the book
... democratic and non-racial South Africa.5 In all three cases women were part and parcel of the conflicts (Urdang 1989, Becker 1995, Britton 2005). In the latter two cases thousands of women spent decades in exile, in some cases fighting ...
... democratic opening, war, and the genocide of up to one million people. In these cases too, it has been argued, women's enhanced participation in the political process in the post-conflict and post-transition period stems in part from ...
... democratic even though they control all power. They put women in the National Assembly because they know they [the women] will not challenge them.” Similarly, former Ugandan MP Matembe argues that women in Uganda “have been trapped and ...
... democratic dispensation is essential for gender-based electoral quotas to have meaning; if all MPs are silenced then no one—male or female—will have the opportunity to advance an equality agenda for women. A revision of this chapter was ...
... democratic political transition. PR systems are considered more favorable toward women because under them political parties seek to compose inclusive party lists that will attract as many voters as possible. (With plurality-majority ...