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Ms Jane Kwapong, a director at the Ministry of Women, Gender and Social Protection, has underscored the need for stepped-up effort to increase gender parity (equal opportunities to females) to enable society reap its far-reaching, development-oriented benefits.  

“The lasting impact of Gender equality empowering women to overcome poverty comes with additional vital and non-quantifiable benefits that permeates other spheres of society such as families and communities and by extension, the entire country,” she said.

Ms Kwapong was speaking at an event organized by the Eastern Regional branch of Ghana National Association of Teachers Ladies (GNAT-LAS), to commemorate the International Day of Women, at Coaltar in the Eastern Region.

Pointing to research to buttress her point, she said recent findings indicated that the enormous returns on the investments in the education of girls and women alone has an all-encompassing potential to positively affect society in the long-run, a fact giving credence to one of Dr Kwegyir Aggrey’s sayings to wit “…Educate a woman and educate the entire nation”.

“This called for urgent steps to scale up gender parity and inclusiveness in political appointments and the removal of workplace biases whiles also giving girls equal and unimpeded access to education”, she added.

Ms Beatrice Gyadu, Eastern Regional Coordinator of GNAT-LAS called on women to be as bold as assertive and put themselves up to compete for vacant leadership positions at their work places and in the political arena.

She further urged women to surge forward on the academic ladder by taking advantage of the various educational opportunities available to them to both improve themselves and acquire the requisite qualifications for prominent.