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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... two regionally-based alternatives and discusses their implications for women's political empowerment and social and economic advancement. The Southern African Cases: Mozambique, Namibia and South Africa Mozambique, 10 Chapter One.
... Empowerment, but also that women's needs, rights and gender equality are built into the MDG standards and programs. Before addressing the issue, a critical distinction must be emphasized: This chapter is not about global advocacy for ...
... empowered, but Americans would still be teaching them “our tricks”, i.e. those that are employed and work (we think) in the United States. The last reflection dates back a full decade. For a student at the Fletcher School of Law and ...
... empowerment and advocacy projects may be promoting a model, a “Standard Operating Procedure,” for women, women activists, and women's NGOs; and that model may allow for organizing and getting out the word (educating), but at the same ...
... empowering. The legalistic approach to rights all too often focuses on “what-the-law-says” and downplays the dynamic aspect of the political process that shapes the extent to which rights are enforced and realized in people's lives ...