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

• Pubblicazione: Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K., : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2009; Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : , : Cambridge Scholars Pub., , 2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (415 p.)
• Disciplina: 303.4096
• Soggetto topico: Women in development - Africa
• Altri autori: NduloMuna GriecoMargaret <1950->
• 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...
• Titolo autorizzato: Power, gender and social change in Africa
• ISBN: 1-282-33401-8; 9786612334016; 1-4438-0628-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910780650303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II