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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... example, representatives of NGOs [nongovernmental organizations] and female intellectuals.” Opposition parties, by contrast, did not define a mechanism for selecting women to their reserved seats, according to Meena, leaving open the ...
... Examples taken from African women's organizations show how components of their programs reflect an approach that others have encouraged. Just as African law schools may teach methods promoted by American law schools that assume an ...
... examples of common women's advocacy practices through the new lenses proposed earlier in the work. These examples illustrate the hypothesis and model ways in which commonly accepted practices may rely on questionable assumptions ...
... example, the National Democratic Institute (NDI) has noted: “In many countries the laws ensuring women's equal participation do not exist or are weak. NDI has assisted in constitutional reform programs that help ensure equality under ...
... example, cases of violence against women.32 For a 1992 volume on women's legal literacy, Akua Kuenyehia of Ghana wrote a piece explaining the impediments to implementation of laws protecting women when magistrates, judges, banks and ...