Welcome to our book review site go-pdf.online!
You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
Confronting Sexual Harassment in Ghanaian Universities
The dynamics of sexual harassment in Ghanaian public universities is investigated by two Ghanaian women scholars. Following on the study, they suggest strategies for the development of university based policies. The study examines the forms of sexual harassment that occur on university campuses, and examines the attitudes and perceptions of members of the university community towards it. Akua O. Britwum is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Development Studies at the University of Cape Coast. Her teaching and research interests cover gender based violence, gender and economic policy as well ass trade union democracy and informal sector labour force organization. Nana Amma Anokye is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Development Studies at the University of Cape Coast. Her teaching and research interests cover agricultural marketing, environmental and gender issues as well as stakeholder participation on water resources management.
Women’s empowerment for sustainable rural livelihoods:
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.
Crossing the Divide
While work-related insecurities and worker vulnerability induced by neoliberal globalisation are undeniably affecting an increasing number of workers around the world, Crossing the Divide reveals that the history and legacy of colonialism is shaping the response of the Global South in ways that are quite different from that of the North. Comparing work in India, Ghana, and South Africa, this book shows how innovative organisational strategies are emerging in the Global South to bridge the widening divide between the formal and informal economy. Farm workers are challenging colonial-type work practices. Municipal workers in Johannesburg and Accra are organising collectively. In India, Ghana, ...
Trade Unions and Workplace Democracy in Africa
This book is about democracy and explores how workplace democracy can broaden and deepen the democratisation process in Africa. It publishes the results of a longitudinal research project on the role of trade unions in the democratisation of workplace labour relations in Africa.
