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By Kennedy Nnamani
SAMANTA Gifty Bukari, the Consular General of Ghana, has said that education of the girl child is key to reducing global poverty.
Speaking at the International Women Day, IWD, celebration organized in collaboration with some Nigerian and Ghanaian women on Tuesday in Lagos, Bukari noted that although the Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs, includes gender equality, the female gender still suffers some issues, especially on the African continent.
While reechoing the theme of the IWD 2022, which is Gender Equality for Sustainable Tomorrow, she said that “the society depends so much on women as they are key factors in the lives of every would-be adult who becomes a decision maker”.
“If you do not involve women in decision making, then you are deceiving yourselves,” she noted.
She disclosed that the Ghanaian government has introduced the Free Senior High School Education to engender this call for gender equality.
According to her, in Ghana, more women are getting into professions like politics, nursing, medicine, as a result of the intentional effort of the Ghanaian government in engendering gender equality.
In the same vein, Taiwo Aina, a young photographer and a live storyteller called for women participation in all areas of endeavor. While referring to her profession, which according to her is dominated by the masculine gender, she stated that “there is no reserved profession for a particular gender”.
“I was the only female in my photography class and I was the best in my class. So being the only lady did not deter me,” she said.
While commenting on her project, The Game of Confidence, (game of female boxing), which she was going to exhibit, she likened the confidence of boxers to the kind of confidence and focus which women should display to achieve the theme of the celebration.
She also called on NGOs, other organizations to support women in sports, especially in boxing to reach their potential.
Claire Nicolas, a French historian, also expressed the need for women to be inclusive in making history, noting that it is important to know the history of how many women from across the world have fought for the present IWD. According to her, “History was not made by only men or Europeans.”
Meanwhile, Marina Yashunina of Milyash Alternative Medicine Specialist Clinic, stated that gender equality cannot be attained without the men. She opined that women need men for affection and love without which they would suffer some medical complications.
On her part, while calling on women to be focused in the fight, Maureen Chigbo, the editor, Realnews Magazine, and President of Guild of Online Corperate Publishers, GOCOPs, urged women all over the world to discard the popular saying that women do not like themselves, a notion which she described as “a big fat lie.”
“Do not be distracted by stereotypes,” she said.
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– March. 09, 2022 @ 11:08 GMT |
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