Lima-neves, terza alice silva b.a. providence college, 2000 the role of women in development: a case study of the republic of Cape Verde, 2006
Lima-Neves, Terza A. S.
2006-07-01
2000-2009
This study examines the role of women in the development of Cape Verde in light of Amilcar Cabral's theoretical conception of the role of women within the development process. Cape Verde is an archipelago of ten islands located 500 miles from Senegal, West Africa. Amilcar Cabral is one of the founding fathers of Cape Verdean identity and the Partido Africano para a Independencia de Guine-Bissau e Cabo Verde, (the African Party for the Independence of Guine-Bissau and Cape Verde), PAIGC, whose revolutionary movement led the two countries to independence in 1975. This study focuses on the role of women within Cape Verdean society from 1960 to 2002. The primary goal is to identify Cabral's concept of the role of women within Cape Verdean society. The secondary goal is to analyze the progress of women's participation in the development of the society since independence and if, in fact, Cabral's vision is being put into practice in modern-day Cape Verde. The study attempts to identify significant constraints to women's involvement in the development of Cape Verde. The assumption of the study is that patriarchy is a major contributor to the marginalization of women in Cape Verdean society and its development. To achieve its primary goal, the study presents and analyzes the following: a) Cabral's theory of development; b) The development process; and c) Cabral's vision of the role of women within the development process. To fulfill the secondary objective, the study examined the following: a) The current role of women in development within the global perspective; b) Women and international law; c) African women and development; and d) Cape Verdean women and development. In this study, secondary data as well as primary data were collected using personal interviews. From an assessment of both sets of data, it was found that although there are still setbacks in many areas, women's participation in the development process of Cape Verde has, in fact, improved. Three major findings resulted from this study: 1) statistically women are still at a disadvantage in participating in the development process at the social, economic, and political levels; 2) the government has been proactive at creating policy to combat discrimination against women. However, the government has been only proactive in terms of implementing the policies; 3) Cultural norms, particularly patriarchy, are not the only major constraints to women's role in development. Class stratification creates major differences among women of different socio-economic backgrounds. Finally, the study revealed that much work is left to be done in integrating gender, class and development considerations in government policies.
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Master of Arts (MA)
Clark Atlanta University
Department of Political Science
Awomolo, Abi
Georgia--Atlanta
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/cau.td:2006_lima_neves_terza_as
https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-EDU/1.0/
