Challenges to Women’s Empowerment and Participation in Community Development: State Regulation and Local Praxis in Moghamo, North West Region, Cameroon
Abstract:The major world conferences on women in the past four to five decades have been laden with so much talk about women's empowerment and their role in development as equal partners resulted in most nations committing themselves through the signing of various conventions to henceforth involve them as active partners in the development process and not just passive recipients of its benefits through the trickledown effect. Proponents of women, gender and development theories have consistently purported that women ar… Show more
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