Links Between Voice and Power in Empowering Rural Women Leaders
Links Between Voice and Power in Empowering Rural Women Leaders

Author: Rosemary Nakijoba

Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing

Published: 2014-12-16

Total Pages: 104

ISBN-13: 9783659648762

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This book offers a stimulation range of literature for students and professionals in academic institutions of learning and community development workers interested in the plight of rural women while accompanying them in their leadership journey. It highlights some of the trans-formative approaches required for a sustainable change that is focused on women's rights and gender equality. It gives an insight for the development professionals to become the change that they want to see in their own local communities in regard to rural women's leadership. We are in this together and the struggle continues!

Women’s empowerment for sustainable rural livelihoods:
Women’s empowerment for sustainable rural livelihoods:

Author: Akua Opokua Britwum

Publisher: kassel university press GmbH

Published: 2019-01-15

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13: 3737606307

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Agricultural interventions are designed on certain assumptions of empowerment that do not necessarily address the livelihood constraints of the rural women they set out to support. This is a failing that might be due to the omission of women’s voices expressing their understanding of empowerment and its relation to existing gender orders. Using primary data from the Upper East and Northern Regions in Ghana, we explored women and men’s notions of the processes and outcomes of empowerment. We began by understanding the basis of women’s disempowerment and confirmed its location within agricultural production relations that granted women limited access to resources. Respondents recognised all the main dimensions of power: within, with, to and over. The restrictions of women’s empowerment to the provisioning role on condition that it did not usurp male power over women limited intervention’s ability to provide true empowerment for women. But signs of increasing transfer of women’s power within into group action and male acceptance of women’s expanding spheres of influence indicate that some grounds for true transformation in the future exists.

Voice and Agency
Voice and Agency

Author: Jeni Klugman

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 2014-09-29

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 1464803595

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"The 2012 report recognized that expanding women's agency - their ability to make decisions and take advantage of opportunities is key to improving their lives as well as the world. This report represents a major advance in global knowledge on this critical front. The vast data and thousands of surveys distilled in this report cast important light on the nature of constraints women and girls continue to face globally. This report identifies promising opportunities and entry points for lasting transformation, such as interventions that reach across sectors and include life-skills training, sexual and reproductive health education, conditional cash transfers, and mentoring. It finds that addressing what the World Health Organization has identified as an epidemic of violence against women means sharply scaling up engagement with men and boys. The report also underlines the vital role information and communication technologies can play in amplifying women's voices, expanding their economic and learning opportunities, and broadening their views and aspirations. The World Bank Group's twin goals of ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity demand no less than the full and equal participation of women and men, girls and boys, around the world." -- Publisher's description.

Rural Women in Leadership
Rural Women in Leadership

Author: Lori Ann McVay

Publisher: CABI

Published: 2013-09-18

Total Pages: 157

ISBN-13: 1780641605

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Rural women and leadership have, in recent years, come to be the focus of development initiatives in many countries. To date, however, much of the writing on this topic has focused heavily on obstacles rather than facilitative factors in women?s attainment of leadership positions. Citing examples from a case study in Northern Ireland, this book gives voice to the many vital, positive elements in rural women?s leadership development.

Empowerment of Rural Women
Empowerment of Rural Women

Author: M. P. Boraian

Publisher: Concept Publishing Company

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9788180695261

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With special reference to Dindigul District in Tamil Nadu, India.

Power, Empowerment and Social Change
Power, Empowerment and Social Change

Author: Rosemary McGee

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-10-21

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 1351272306

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This book uncovers how power operates around the world, and how it can be resisted or transformed through empowered collective action and social leadership. The stakes have never been higher. Recent years have seen a rapid escalation of inequalities, the rise of new global powers and corporate interests, increasing impunity of human rights violations, suppression of civil society, and a re-shaping of democratic processes by post-truth, populist and nationalist politics. Rather than looking at power through the lenses of agency or structure alone, this book views power and empowerment as complex and multidimensional societal processes, defined by pervasive social norms, conditions, constraints and opportunities. Bridging theory and practice, the book explores real-world applications using a selection of frameworks, tools, case studies, examples, resources and reflections from experience to support actors to analyse their positioning and align themselves with progressive social forces. Compiled with social change practitioners, students and scholars in mind, Power, Empowerment and Social Change is the perfect volume for anyone involved in politics, international development, sociology, human rights and environmental justice who is looking for fresh insights for transforming power in favour of relatively less powerful people.

Leadership and Power in International Development
Leadership and Power in International Development

Author: Randal Joy Thompson

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2018-10-24

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 1787541169

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Leaders present lessons learned, strategies, challenges, and successes in easy-to-read narratives highlighting their diverse experiences with context, culture, power, gender and sustainability.

Sharing Power
Sharing Power

Author: Grazia Borrini

Publisher: Earthscan

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 512

ISBN-13: 1844074978

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First Published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Becoming a Dangerous Woman
Becoming a Dangerous Woman

Author: Pat Mitchell

Publisher: Hachette UK

Published: 2019-10-08

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 1580059317

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An intimate and inspiring memoir and call to action from Pat Mitchell -- groundbreaking media icon, global advocate for women's rights, and co-founder and curator of TEDWomen Pat Mitchell is a serial ceiling smasher. The first woman to own and host a nationally syndicated daily talk show, and the first female president of CNN productions and PBS, Mitchell has been lauded as a powerful changemaker and a relentless advocate for women and girls. In Becoming a Dangerous Woman, Mitchell shares her own path to power, from a childhood spent on a cotton farm in the South to her unprecedented rise in media and global affairs. Full of intimate, fascinating stories, such as an encounter with Fidel Castro while wearing a swimsuit, and traveling to war zones with Eve Ensler and Glenn, Becoming a Dangerous Woman is an inspiring call to arms for women who are ready to dismantle the barriers they see in their own lives.