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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456810603321

Titolo

Power, gender and social change in Africa [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Muna Ndulo and Margaret Grieco

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K., : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2009

ISBN

1-282-33401-8

9786612334016

1-4438-0628-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (415 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

NduloMuna

GriecoMargaret <1950->

Disciplina

303.4096

Soggetti

Women in development - Africa

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-376) and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. I. Gender mainstreaming, politics, and participation -- pt. II. Activism, scholarship and gender -- pt. III. Health, education and culture -- pt. IV. Legal framework, human rights, conflict, and economic empowerment.

Sommario/riassunto

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, bot...