A triumph for women's rights : her African story / Laeticia Mukurasi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mukurasi, Laeticia, 1951- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mukurasi, Laeticia, 1951-.

Mukurasi, Laeticia.

African Development Bank.

Women bank employees--Tanzania.

Women bank employees.

Sex discrimination in employment--Tanzania.

Sex discrimination in employment.

Tanzania.

Genre:

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 280 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

Dar es Salaam : Laeticia Mukurasi, [2019]

Summary:

"A highly qualified, widely experienced African woman lands a job as the only Gender Specialist at the African Development Bank, dedicated to improving the impoverished and exploited position of women through the well-financed development projects of the Bank. This is the true story of the obstacles she meets as the male-dominated institution fights back on behalf of the status quo. Indomitable, she persists, taking a new approach every time she is blocked, speaking out to the top boss who, incensed at her temerity in challenging his sexist statements, sacks her. Even then, she has the courage to fight back, takes the Bank to court and wins. Within this story, the intricacies of feminist organizational change in an African context are revealed in all their complexity as Laeticia own story echoes the oppression of the women she is fighting for"--Page 4 of cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-280).

ISBN:

9789976597899

9976597894

OCLC:

1289504671