Gender, Spatiality and Urban Informality in Zimbabwe: A Case of Women in the Informal Sector in Pre-2005 Harare - Softcover

Chirisa, Innocent

 
9783845409252: Gender, Spatiality and Urban Informality in Zimbabwe: A Case of Women in the Informal Sector in Pre-2005 Harare
Softcover
ISBN 10: 3845409258 ISBN 13: 9783845409252
Verlag: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

This book examines the activities of urban women in the informal sector in selected areas in Harare in the period before Operation Murambatsvina in Zimbabwe, in 2005. Gender, Spatiality and Urban Informality argues that despite efforts by the Government in Zimbabwe to empower women through policies, programmes and legal reforms, the generality of them remain in a state of abject poverty which they strive, yet with difficulties, to extricate themselves from it. Trading in low-profile goods, i.e. least rewarding goods, is an avenue that most poor women have identified to empower themselves yet it is really a ‘long walk to freedom’. Unlike a sizeable number of men, who have made staid inroads into high profile ventures in micro-finance, construction, manufacturing, trade, transport, information and communication technologies, to name but a few, women are still struggling with the smallest things including subsistence-making. This book, which is the outcome of a study in 2003 and 2004, has revealed that policy and practice still lag in Zimbabwe to adequately address challenges encountered by women in, probably not only urban environments but the rural sector alike. Women in the informa

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Innocent is Seniour Lecturer bij de afdeling Rural and Urban Planning van de Universiteit van Zimbabwe. Voorheen was hij docent aan het Harare Polytechnic College waar hij cursussen gaf in stedenbouw en taxatie en landgoedbeheer. Innocent is een vruchtbare schrijver op het gebied van stedelijke informaliteit, place stewardship en huisvesting.

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Verlag
LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
Erscheinungsdatum
2011
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
3845409258
ISBN 13 
9783845409252
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
100
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