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

Chirisa, Innocent

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

Sinossi

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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L'autore

Innocent is a Senior lecturer in the Department of Rural and Urban Planning at the University of Zimbabwe. Before joining the University in 2007, he taught Town Planning and Estate Management at Harare Polytechnic College (2005-2007). Innocent is a holder of a BSc (Hons.) and MSc in Rural and Urban Planning.

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Editore
LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
Data di pubblicazione
2011
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
3845409258
ISBN 13 
9783845409252
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
100
Contatto del produttore
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