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Cherryl Walker - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Women, Gender Policy and land reform in South Africa
Politikon, 2005Co-Authors: Cherryl WalkerAbstract:Abstract This article examines the Gender Policy of the Department of Land Affairs (DLA) and progress since 1994 in giving content to women's land rights in practice in two major sub-programmes of land reform: land redistribution and communal tenure reform. The article reviews the constitutional negotiations around Gender equality and cultural rights between 1993 and 1996. It then summarizes the extent to which the DLA's land redistribution programme has formally targeted women since 1994. It further examines the effectiveness of the DLA's formal Gender Policy in practice, using the KwaZulu Natal provincial office and three of its land redistribution projects as case studies, and considers the treatment of women's land rights in the struggle around the enactment of the Communal Land Rights Act in 2004. Although serious shortcomings in the management and conceptualization of the DLA's Gender Policy are evident, alongside a lack of consensus in society more broadly on the content of Gender equality in socia...
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PIETY IN THE SKY? Gender Policy AND LAND REFORM IN SOUTH AFRICA
Journal of Agrarian Change, 2003Co-Authors: Cherryl WalkerAbstract:This article examines the disjuncture between high–level commitments to Gender equity and practice in South Africa's land reform programme. Weaknesses in implementing the Gender Policy of the Department of Land Affairs stem largely from limitations within the broader programme, compounded by the inadequate conceptualization and management of the task and an absence of political accountability around women's land rights by the Department and Ministry. The low political priority accorded Gender Policy is itself a reflection of weak levels of organization among rural women. However, rural women show an interest in strengthening their rights in land and the small number of women whose households have secured land through the programme regard this as a positive achievement.
Rabi Muhammad - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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LEVEL OF AWARENESS , EXTENT OF INVOLVEMENT AND OBSTACLES TO EFFECTIVE IMPLEMENTATION OF NATIONAL Gender Policy ON BASIC EDUCATION IN SOKOTO STATE
Sokoto Educational Review, 2017Co-Authors: Muhammad Wadata Hakimi, Rabi MuhammadAbstract:The paper examined the level of awareness, the extent of involvement and probable obstacles to the effective implementation of the national Gender Policy on basic education in Sokoto State. A sample of 180 teachers was drawn from the population of teachers at the Junior Secondary School level in Sokoto Slate through a stratified random sampling technique. A questionnaire tagged Teachers Awareness and Involvement Questionnaire (TAIO) was used to obtain information from the teachers. Results of the study show that teachers in the state are not aware of the existence of the National Gender Policy in basic education, they are also not involved in the implementation of the Policy. The most important obstacle to the successful implementation of the Policy being teachers' insufficient knowledge of the various aspects of the Policy. It was recommended among others that teachers should be given adequate training and orientation for the implementation of the Policy considering the fa c t that teachers are the cornerstone of the implementation of any education Policy.
Ania Plomien - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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EU social and Gender Policy beyond Brexit: towards the European Pillar of Social Rights
Social Policy and Society, 2018Co-Authors: Ania PlomienAbstract:The analysis of EU level social and Gender policies highlights uneven developments and concerns over the EU as not (always) beneficial to social progress and Gender equality. The EU, although primarily market driven, has developed a range of social policies, with Gender equality enjoying a long-standing status as EU's founding value, dating back to the 1957 principle of equal pay for equal work. Yet, sixty years later, social justice objectives and equality between women and men remain to be realised. Social and Gender themes have been revived by the proposal to develop the European Pillar of Social Rights, the shaping and implementing of which post-Brexit UK will not take part in. This initiative entails some meaningful developments for social and Gender progress. However, its current form and content represents an adjustment to, rather than a transformation of, the unequal European economy and society.
Robert L. Peralta - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Thinking sociologically about sources of obesity in the United States
Gender Issues, 2003Co-Authors: Robert L. PeraltaAbstract:As medicine increasingly targets and identifies obesity as a disease, it is important for social and behavioral scientists to participate in the identification of obesity origins which exist outside of the immediate individual in question. While scholars in the medical arena often focus on proximate factors contributing to ill-health, distal factors can be critical sources of public health problems such as obesity. This paper will highlight important distal factors found to be associated with obesity. Empirical studies reveal the allocation of resources and goods such as fresh fruits, vegetables, low fat-high protein foods, exercise opportunity, and education on nutrition, health, and diet are not equally distributed. Moreover, cultural attitudes toward thinness, health, and beauty are not universal but subject to cultural and ethnic interpretation. The unequal and often distinctly different distribution of goods, services, and knowledge has been directly linked to obesity disparity rates by race, social class, and Gender. Policy recommendations and suggestions for future research conclude the paper.
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Thinking sociologically about sources of obesity in the United States
Gender Issues, 2003Co-Authors: Robert L. PeraltaAbstract:As medicine increasingly targets and identifies obesity as a disease, it is important for social and behavioral scientists to participate in the identification of obesity origins which exist outside of the immediate individual in question. While scholars in the medical arena often focus on proximate factors contributing to ill-health, distal factors can be critical sources of public health problems such as obesity. This paper will highlight important distal factors found to be associated with obesity. Empirical studies reveal the allocation of resources and goods such as fresh fruits, vegetables, low fat-high protein foods, exercise opportunity, and education on nutrition, health, and diet are not equally distributed. Moreover, cultural attitudes toward thinness, health, and beauty are not universal but subject to cultural and ethnic interpretation. The unequal and often distinctly different distribution of goods, services, and knowledge has been directly linked to obesity disparity rates by race, social class, and Gender. Policy recommendations and suggestions for future research conclude the paper.
Vivian W Pinn - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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perspectives from a pathologist my journey on the path to women s health research sex and Gender Policy and practice implications
Annual Review of Pathology-mechanisms of Disease, 2018Co-Authors: Vivian W PinnAbstract:These words reflect my recollections of major transition points in my life and career: as I first became dedicated to becoming a physician, being introduced to the field of pathology and research, and then transitioning to a somewhat different career focus by becoming the first director of the National Institutes of Health Office of Research on Women's Health. Many of the experiences that I gained during my years in pathology served me well as I made efforts to establish women's health research and sex and Gender based studies as scientific endeavors. Participating in research and teaching as an academic pathologist, setting funding priorities, and supporting and encouraging research careers through governmental office programs have been the essence of my more than 50 years as a pathologist and physician.