Research Catalog

Title

Women and political leadership : facilitating factors in Tanzania / Professor Ruth Meena, Mary Rusimbi, Caroline Israel.

Author

Meena, Ruth E.

Publication

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania : Uongozi Institute, [2017]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Rusimbi, Mary
• Israel, Caroline

Description

vi, 51 pages; 21 cm

Summary

"Based on a women and empowerment framework, this study used a life history approach to identify the factors in their life cycle that influenced and helped women during their journey to political empowerment in Tanzania. Twenty women shared with the authors their lived experiences of this journey. This study shows that parents, particularly fathers, played a central role in their empowerment, either by investing in their daughters' education or by inspiring them and serving as role models to them. Further, most of the women interviewed indicated that their spouses supported their leadership journey by providing emotional support and the financial resources needed, and by helping them to maintain a family-work balance. The respondents underscored the importance of these role models, who, as they explained, stirred their interest, supported their determination to make a difference and their personal ambition to attain a leadership role, and inspired in them a personal desire to serve others. Schools and teachers also influenced them on this journey; nurturing the respondents' leadership talents by giving them leadership roles when they were schoolgirls, encouraging their progress, and serving as another form of role model. Both informal and formal networks were key resources in enhancing the participants' capacity and in supporting their aspirations to fulfill their potential."--

Series Statement

Research report ; 17/1

Uniform Title

Research report (UONGOZI Institute) ; 17/1.

Subject

• 2000-2099
• Leadership in women > Tanzania
• Women > Political activity > Tanzania
• Women's rights > Tanzania
• Politics and government
• Women > Political activity
• Women's rights
• Tanzania > Politics and government > 21st century
• Tanzania

Note

• Date taken from publisher's website

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 48-51).

Additional Formats (note)

• Also available online (World Wide Web)

Call Number

ReCAP 21-5153

LCCN

2018354149

OCLC

1031039635

Author

Meena, Ruth E., author.

Title

Women and political leadership : facilitating factors in Tanzania / Professor Ruth Meena, Mary Rusimbi, Caroline Israel.

Publisher

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania : Uongozi Institute, [2017]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Research report ; 17/1

Research report (UONGOZI Institute) ; 17/1.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 48-51).

Additional Formats

Also available online (World Wide Web)

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Chronological Term

2000-2099

Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Rusimbi, Mary, author.

Israel, Caroline, author.

Research Call Number

ReCAP 21-5153