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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... equality agenda for women. A revision of this chapter was originally published as Bauer, Gretchen: “Fifty/Fifty by 2020” in International Feminist Journal of Politics (2008) vol. 10 no. 3, Taylor & Francis Ltd. Reprinted by permission ...
... equality. A Growing Concern about the Results from Common Approaches The advocacy tactics in vogue over the past two decades for the enhancement and protection of women's rights have been less effective and sustainable at the national ...
... takes as a given the global objective of realizing respect for women's rights and gender equality.1 The issue under examination is not the goal, but rather the means of achieving that Greenberg: Women's Rights Advocacy 27.
... equality advocates now find themselves struggling not only to ensure achievement of Millennium Development Goal #3 on Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment, but also that women's needs, rights and gender equality are built into the ...
... equality within development programs—such as those focused on governance, economic growth, health issues or natural resource management6—may be another.7 A sub-hypothesis of this chapter is that Americans (and some Europeans) who are ...