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Power, gender and social change in Africa / edited by Muna Ndulo and Margaret Grieco.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women in development--Africa--Congresses.
- Women in development.
- Genre:
- Libros electrónicos.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (415 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K. : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2009.
- Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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...
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-376) and index.
- Descripción basada en metadatos suministrados por el editor y otras fuentes.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-33401-8
- 9786612334016
- 1-4438-0628-5
- OCLC:
- 827209450
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