African Women and Development: A History : The Story of the African Training and Research Centre for Women of the United Nations Economic Commission

This volume describes and assesses the development of the African Training and Research Centre for Women (ATRCW) in the context of the issues African women have had to contend with. Statistical information on health, education and employment are combined with interview material to create an understanding of the realities they face.

Politics & Social Sciences

Snyder, Margaret C.

Tadesse, Mary

Social Sciences

Zed Books

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Women in African Economies cuts across the many sectors of the national economy, reaching from a woman who sells her surplus beans and maize in the village market to one who creates an international air frieght business. A broad review of the informal sector and women's participation in Africa's and Uganda's economic life is followed by a history of the surge of women's entrepreneurship during times of civil unrest, and women's political activism after 1986. Many of the business women are contending with globalization's competitive effects and with the structural adjustment programs urged on their government by donors. "Snyder succeeds in making at least one type of 'women's work' visible - those economic activities and contributions that are sofrequently ignored. In allowing the Ugandan women entrepreneurs to tell their own stories - of challenges, hard work, disappointment and sweet success - she lets the truth speak for itself. Her book is a compelling disclosure of both truth and myth concerning women in African economies" says Dr Hilda Tadria, Regional Advisor on Economic Empowerment of Women at the UNECA. The central thesis of the study is that as women create wealth and invest it in human well being, they broaden (democratize) their country's economic base. In so doing, they offer a new, non-western model of development. By boosting women's entrepreneurship with positive policies and actions, policy makers and international investors can counter poverty while giving the world an economic justice and growth model.

Women in African Economies: From Burning Sun to Boardroom

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African Women and Development: A History : The Story of the African Training and Research Centre for Women of the United Nations Economic Commission

African Women and Development: A History : The Story of the African Training and Research Centre for Women of the United Nations Economic Commission

Women in African Economies: From Burning Sun to Boardroom