This book explores the issues and challenges of gender and development in Africa. The current needs of women in Africa …1. Mapping Contradictions Within the Legal Frameworks and Cultural Norms on women’s Right to Land and Agriculture in … Western Kenya -- 2. Representation of Women and Gendered Role Portrayals in Television Advertising: A Content Analysis of …

Forty-five years ago, the first Regional Conference on the Integration of Women into the Economic and Social … Conference of the International Women’s Year (Mexico City, 1975). This meeting culminated in the adoption by the governments of … the region of the Regional Plan of Action for the Integration of Women into Latin American Economic and Social Development …

women's employment. We examine how the forces that underlie this observation play out in developing countries, with a … specific focus on Nigeria, the most populous country in Africa. A force affecting high- and low-income countries alike are … employment: whereas in high-income economies reduced employment in contact-intensive services had a large impact on women, this …