Gender And Mobility In Africa

Author : Kalpana Hiralal,Zaheera Jinnah
Publisher : Springer
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319657837

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Gender and Mobility in Africa by Kalpana Hiralal,Zaheera Jinnah Pdf

This volume examines gender and mobility in Africa though the central themes of borders, bodies and identity. It explores perceptions and engagements around ‘borders’; the ways in which ‘bodies’ and women’s bodies in particular, shape and are affected by mobility, and the making and reproduction of actual and perceived ‘boundaries’; in relation to gender norms and gendered identify. Over fourteen original chapters it makes revealing contributions to the field of migration and gender studies. Combining historical and contemporary perspectives on mobility in Africa, this project contextualises migration within a broad historical framework, creating a conceptual and narrative framework that resists post-colonial boundaries of thought on the subject matter. This multidisciplinary work uses divergent methodologies including ethnography, archival data collection, life histories and narratives and multi-country survey level data and engages with a range of conceptual frameworks to examine the complex forms and outcomes of mobility on the continent today. Contributions include a range of case studies from across the continent, which relate either conceptually or methodologically to the central question of gender identity and relations within migratory frameworks in Africa. This book will appeal to researchers and scholars of politics, history, anthropology, sociology and international relations.

Author : Rasmane Ouedraogo,Nicolas Syrichas
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781513593807

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Intergenerational Social Mobility in Africa Since 1920 by Rasmane Ouedraogo,Nicolas Syrichas Pdf

The COVID-19 crisis has a severe impact on education and employment and exposed the many social inequities that make some populations more vulnerable to shocks. Despite a vast literature on social mobility in advanced economies, little is known about it in African countries, mainly due to data limitations. Using a large harmonized dataset of more than 72 million individuals, we fill this gap and examine socioeconomic status mobility across generations, measured by educational and occupational attainment. We uncover the substantial geographical variations in the degree of upward/downward educational and occupational mobility across and within African countries, and the gender and rural/urban divide. Additionally, we explore the determinants of social mobility in the African region. We find that social mobility on the continent could be partly explained by observable individual characteristics (gender, marital status, age, etc.), and that educational mobility is a driver of occupational mobility. Lastly, we show that the quality of institutions, the level of public spending on education, social protection coverage, natural resource endowments, and countries' fragility are strong predictors of social mobility in Africa.

Author : Sustainable Mobility for All (SuM4All)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798986018881

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Sustainable Mobility in South Africa: Gender and Mobility Assessment and Roadmap for Action by Sustainable Mobility for All (SuM4All) Pdf

Author : Rasmané Ouedraogo,Idrissa Ouedraogo
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 39 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781513511450

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Gender Equality and Electoral Violence in Africa: Unlocking the Peacemaking Potential of Women by Rasmané Ouedraogo,Idrissa Ouedraogo Pdf

We examine the impact of gender equality on electoral violence in Africa using micro-level data from the sixth round of Afrobarometer surveys. The sample covers 30 countries. We find that gender equality is associated with lower electoral violence. Quantitatively, our estimates show that an increase in female-to-male labor force participation ratio by 1 percentage point is correlated with a reduction of the probability of electoral violence across the continent by around 4.2 percentage points. Our results are robust to alternative ways to measure electoral violence and gender equality, as well as to alternative specifications. The findings of this paper support the long-standing view that women empowerment contributes to the reduction of violence and underscore the urgency of addressing gender inequality in Africa.

Author : Patience Mutopo
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004281554

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Women, Mobility and Rural Livelihoods in Zimbabwe by Patience Mutopo Pdf

This book through detailed ethnographic methodology investigates the role women play in a post fast track land environment. The author examines how the hidden access to land, enabled the women to engage in agro based livelihoods and transitory mobility through social networks.

Author : Mariana P. Candido
Publisher : James Currey
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1847012647

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African Women in the Atlantic World by Mariana P. Candido Pdf

An innovative and valuable resource for understanding women's roles in changing societies, this book brings together the history of Africa, the Atlantic and gender before the 20th century. It explores trade, slavery and migration in the context of the Euro-African encounter.

Author : Asian Development Bank
Publisher : Asian Development Bank
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789292541460

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Gender Tool Kit by Asian Development Bank Pdf

This tool kit assists staff and consultants of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and partner governments in conceptualizing and designing gender-responsive programs and projects in transport sector operations. It aims to help users identify gender equality issues and to develop practical design elements into transport operations. It guides users on key questions to be asked and data to be collected during project preparation, and provides a menu of entry points for designing gender-inclusive transport projects. The tool kit presents the rationale for why gender equality issues are important in transport sector operations and provides guidance and suggestions for integrating gender in key transport subsectors. Case studies from ADB projects have been included to illustrate good practices in mainstreaming gender concerns in transport sector operations.

Author : C. Mark Blackden,Quentin Wodon
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780821365625

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Gender, Time Use, and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa by C. Mark Blackden,Quentin Wodon Pdf

The papers in this volume examine the links between gender, time use, and poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa. They contribute to a broader definition of poverty to include "time poverty," and to a broader definition of work to include household work. The papers present a conceptual framework linking both market and household work, review some of the available literature and surveys on time use in Africa, and use tools and approaches drawn from analysis of consumption-based poverty to develop the concept of a time poverty line and to examine linkages between time poverty, consumption poverty, and ot.

Author : Dorothy Louise Hodgson,Professor Dorothy L Hodgson,Sheryl A. McCurdy,Sheryl McCurdy
Publisher : James Currey
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Femmes - Afrique - Conditions sociales
ISBN : 0852556454

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"Wicked" Women and the Reconfiguration of Gender in Africa by Dorothy Louise Hodgson,Professor Dorothy L Hodgson,Sheryl A. McCurdy,Sheryl McCurdy Pdf

Challenges the common stereotypes of African women as either victims or unrestrained resisters.

Author : Gina Porter,Kate Hampshire,Albert Abane,Alister Munthali,Elsbeth Robson,Mac Mashiri
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 113745430X

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Young People’s Daily Mobilities in Sub-Saharan Africa by Gina Porter,Kate Hampshire,Albert Abane,Alister Munthali,Elsbeth Robson,Mac Mashiri Pdf

This book explores the daily mobilities and immobilities of children and young people in sub-Saharan Africa. The authors draw on findings from rural and urban field research extending over many years, culminating in a 24-site study across three African countries: Ghana, Malawi, and South Africa. Wider reflections on gender, relationality, the politics of mobility, and field methodology frame the study. By bringing together diverse strands of a complex daily mobilities picture-from journeys for education, work, play/leisure and health, to associated experiences of different transport modes, road safety, and the virtual mobility now afforded by mobile phones-the book helps fill a knowledge gap with crucial significance for development policy and practice.

Author : Joël Noret
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789204865

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Social Im/mobilities in Africa by Joël Noret Pdf

Grounded in both theory and ethnography, this volume insists on taking social positionality seriously when accounting for Africa’s current age of polarizing wealth. To this end, the book advocates a multidimensional view of African societies, in which social positions consist of a variety of intersecting social powers - or ‘capitals’ – including wealth, education, social relationships, religion, ethnicity, and others. Accordingly, the notion of social im/mobilities emphasizes the complexities of current changes, taking us beyond the prism of a one-dimensional social ladder, for social moves cannot always be apprehended through the binaries of ‘gains’ and ‘losses’.

Author : World Bank
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 0821356763

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Gender and Development in the Middle East and North Africa by World Bank Pdf

Author : Tim Cresswell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317129721

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Gendered Mobilities by Tim Cresswell Pdf

Being socially and geographically mobile is generally seen as one of the central aspects of women's wellbeing. Alongside health, education and political participation, mobility is indispensable in order for women to reach goals such as agency and freedom. Building on new philosophical underpinnings of 'mobility', whereby society is seen to be framed by the convergence of various mobilities, this volume focuses on the intersection of mobility, social justice and gender. The authors reflect on five highly interdependent mobilities that form and reform social life: *

Author : Kathleen Beegle,Luc Christiaensen
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781464812330

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Accelerating Poverty Reduction in Africa by Kathleen Beegle,Luc Christiaensen Pdf

Sub-Saharan Africa's turnaround over the past couple of decades has been dramatic. After many years in decline, the continent's economy picked up in the mid-1990s. Along with this macroeconomic growth, people became healthier, many more youngsters attended schools, and the rate of extreme poverty declined from 54 percent in 1990 to 41 percent in 2015. Political and social freedoms expanded, and gender equality advanced. Conflict in the region also subsided, although it still claims thousands of civilian lives in some countries and still drives pressing numbers of displaced persons. Despite Africa’s widespread economic and social welfare accomplishments, the region’s challenges remain daunting: Economic growth has slowed in recent years. Poverty rates in many countries are the highest in the world. And notably, the number of poor in Africa is rising because of population growth. From a global perspective, the biggest concentration of poverty has shifted from South Asia to Africa. Accelerating Poverty Reduction in Africa explores critical policy entry points to address the demographic, societal, and political drivers of poverty; improve income-earning opportunities both on and off the farm; and better mobilize resources for the poor. It looks beyond macroeconomic stability and growth—critical yet insufficient components of these objectives—to ask what more could be done and where policy makers should focus their attention to speed up poverty reduction. The pro-poor policy agenda advanced in this volume requires not only economic growth where the poor work and live, but also mitigation of the many risks to which African households are exposed. As such, this report takes a "jobs" lens to its task. It focuses squarely on the productivity and livelihoods of the poor and vulnerable—that is, what it will take to increase their earnings. Finally, it presents a road map for financing the poverty and development agenda.

Author : Kate Grantham,Gillian Dowie,Arjan de Haan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000340341

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Women's Economic Empowerment by Kate Grantham,Gillian Dowie,Arjan de Haan Pdf

This book investigates the barriers to women’s economic empowerment in the Global South. Drawing on evidence from a wide range of countries, the book outlines important lessons and practical solutions for promoting gender equality. Despite global progress in closing gender gaps in education and health, women’s economic empowerment has lagged behind, with little evidence that economic growth promotes gender equality. International Development Research Centre’s (IDRC) Growth and Economic Opportunities for Women (GrOW) programme was set up to provide policy lessons, insights, and concrete solutions that could lead to advances in gender equality, particularly on the role of institutions and macroeconomic growth, barriers to labour market access for women, and the impact of women’s care responsibilities. This book showcases rigorous and multi-disciplinary research emerging from this ground-breaking programme, covering topics such as the school-to-work transition, child marriage, unpaid domestic work and childcare, labour market segregation, and the power of social and cultural norms that prevent women from fully participating in better paid sectors of the economy. With a range of rich case studies from Burkina Faso, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Kenya, Nepal, Rwanda, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, and Uganda, this book is perfect for students, researchers, practitioners, and policymakers working on women’s economic empowerment and gender equality in the Global South.