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Title: | The Impact of Senegal's Decentralization on Women in Local Governance |
Author: | Patterson, Amy |
Year: | 2002 |
Periodical: | Canadian Journal of African Studies |
Volume: | 36 |
Issue: | 3 |
Pages: | 490-529 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Senegal |
Subjects: | popular participation decentralization municipal government rural areas women politics Women's Issues Politics and Government Status of Women |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/4107334 |
Abstract: | A case study of Ndoulo Rural Council (Diourbel region, central Senegal) suggests that while decentralization in Senegal has numerically increased women's representation in rural councils, it has only marginally advanced the representation of women's interests and the accountability of female officeholders. Data derive from Senegal's 1996 local elections and interviews in Ndoulo with rural council members, local party elites and female political leaders in 2000. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. in French. [ASC Leiden abstract] |