Member of Parliament for Klottey Korle Constituency, Dr. Zanetor Rawlings has called on women to put aside gender stereotypes, take up jobs in public and other sectors and occupy leadership positions just like their male counterparts in order to help fight against gender disparity.
Explaining her point, she said if there were more women occupying offices in the various arms of government, as well as in the private sector, issues regarding domestic violence and other awful crimes against young girls and women would have been minimized.
“I think that If we were to have a lot more women represented in the various arms of government, as well as in the private sector and everywhere else, issues regarding domestic violence and sexual abuse, and defilement of our young girls will not be as awful as they are right now because we will have a lot more women fighting for the rights of our young children,” she opined.
Dr. Zanetor Rawlings made this call when she joined other women leaders and entrepreneurs at the National Women’s Summit organized by Charter House in Accra Thursday.
The National Women’s Summit was organized in line with the International Women’s Day marked extensively worldwide on March 8 to celebrate women and their role in society.
According to the Klottey Korle legislator, women should not be frightened when they see men in certain positions but should also make the attempt to get there because not all the men occupying public offices or in various positions are great but were put there because they are ‘men’.
However, as the fight for equal representation through the Affirmative Action Bill heightens, Dr. Zanetor Rawlings said there was the need for women to enrich their knowledge so as to help those who are willing to get into public offices and positions to improve upon themselves.
“If we’re to achieve that objective of having equal representation as at some point … what we need to do as women to ensure the quality of women who are making it into these positions is to ensure that we are enriching our knowledge and helping those around us who will like to get into such areas to improve upon themselves,” she clarified.
She has, therefore, called on society to have respect for women and recognize the fact that women are capable of doing a lot to change the world at large.
“The reality is where you have more women you have a balance representation, whether it’s in peace building, and if you’re doing anything relating to conflict resolution and you have women on the panel, you have a more lasting outcome of peace so women have a vital role to play,” she emphasized.
Source: ghanaweb
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May almighty God punish any person who wants to champion this ***barred word*** equal right thing..You want to turn Ghana into western world..Then you can control the men abi?fuuls.....most of these ladies are not even married ..If this is what Nana Addo is all about then next 4 years we shall see...Aaa what ***barred word*** is this?today is Otiko and tomorrow too is Zenator..Is it a crime to be a man?If it a crime to be a head of a family?I think all these single parents who are making these noise should petition God almighty because he made it so...we as Ghanaian's will not follow these things..You can make all the laws but we will not use it..Good African values reign supreme
Enough of these crying out pretentious women. All the want is control. The want to be in good positions to control but they end as bad as the men if not worse. Who was in charge of the Bus branding saga? is it not a woman minister called Dzifa Attivor. Who facilitated the cash payment to Woyome? Is it not Betty Mould Iddrisu. Who was recently arrested in London with some hefty kilos of cocaine from ghana, is it not Nayaale a woman. Former oil minister of Nigeria Alison -Medueke absconded to London to avoid arrest from EFCC for her part in the corruption scandal in Nigeria worth Billions of dollars. The first female south Korean leader was impeached this week because of corruption scandals , yet he we are clamoring for more women in high positions as if they are angels. WOMEN ARE NOT ANGELS FOR CRY OUT LOUD. All we need is good people in key positions. It does not matter if they are male or female. So the call should be about good people not just about women as if they are better evils.
What an interesting World. Anytime Ezenator speaks about priviledges and opportunities and also about her childhood and the struggles - I feel sorry for her hypocrisy. She should go back to history and reflect on the millions of families and children whose lives his parents destroyed. One out of many was the 11 months old child whose mother (Justice Koranteng-Addo) was murdered. The business and market women who were molested and humiliated right under the watch of his father's military junta. God's judgement will come at the right time.