Women with same qualification who have been employed and playing the same role as their male counterparts in their various jobs should earn equal salaries as the men, Ace Anan Ankomah has suggested.
According to him, even though abuses cut across all gender, women have been cheated out of what is rightfully theirs and have severely suffered some forms of abuses more than men.
Contributing to a panel discussion on International Women’s Day on the Good Evening Ghana show, he explained that these abuses women suffer span from issues of inequalities in marriage, education and in the corporate world as well.
Asked whether men should earn more than women on the same job, he stressed, “Why should she earn less simply because she’s a woman? I’m working with her, she has the same qualification as I do, we’re doing the same job, and the appraisals show that we’re doing the same job. In the corporate world we’re all here to work and take monies home for whichever purpose.”
The private legal practitioner also strongly objected to assertions that men should earn more because they are the heads of their families and responsible for footing the bills in the home.
He said, “In the corporate world that doesn’t matter. Anybody who says that, I’ll tell the person it’s nonsense. …if she has my qualifications and she’s probably even doing better than me why should she earn less? I think both men and women should earn the same,” he said.
Source: ghanaweb.com
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Why is he in the news on peacefmonline a lot lately? Is this all in anticipation of a government position or what?
THIS EQUAL PAY MANTRA BETWEEN THE GENDERS HAVE BEEN DISPROVED OVER AND OVER AGAIN. THE STATISTIC IS FLAWED. THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU TAKE FIGURES AND INTERPRET THEM WITH NARRATIVES. NO SERIOUS ECONOMIST TAKES THE GENDER PAY GAP SERIOUSLY. IS THERE NO PAY SCALES IN THE CIVIL SERVICE FOR INSTANCE? IS ACE SAYING WHEN A MAN IS ON THE SAME GRADE ONE WAY OR THE OTHER HE IS PAID MORE THAN THE FEMALE EMPLOYED WITH THE SAME GRADE? THIS IS NO BECAUSE IT IS EVEN ILLEGAL. LOOK IT IS JUST A WAY OF SOCIAL ENGINEERING BY WESTERN MIDDLE CLASS ELITE FEMALES LIKE THOSE IN THE "METOO" MOVEMENT WHO WANT SPECIAL TREATMENT. THE REALITY ELUDES THEM.