Women urged to strive for higher academic laurels
The Northern Regional Industrial Relations Officer of the Public Service Workers Union of the Trades Union Congress (PSWU-TUC), Madam Felicia Kraja, has urged women to strive to achieve higher academic laurels to enable them to serve in responsible leadership positions in the country.
Advertisement
She said that would enable them to compete effectively with their male counterparts for higher positions to curb gender stereotyping in female positions.
Madam Kraja said this at a workshop on gender mainstreaming organised by the Women’s Desk of the PSWU for women activists in Tamale.
Policy of union
She stated that it was the policy of the union to grow and develop the participation and representation of women in the union, since women recorded the least numbers in union leadership over the years.
Madam Kraja said another reason women did not occupy high and respectable positions was the fact that they perceived themselves as vulnerable and also entertained the fear of being victimised or discriminated against by people in their communities.
“No matter the effort put in place by unions, it still takes the commitment and zeal of women themselves to take their right places in the union, without necessarily creating affirmative positions. The union should, therefore, commit itself more to giving women opportunity to close the gap,” she said.
Legal rights of women
The National Trustee for the PSWU, Hajia Fati Seidu Tamboro, said the women’s section of the union focused on strengthening the legal rights of women in society and at their workplaces, as gender equality was a matter of human rights and a condition for social justice.
She advised the women to come up with issues that affected their development because keeping such challenges to themselves would not make their plight known to society.
Hajia Tamboro advised the women to not be apathetic in their endeavours but work hard to achieve great results.
She also urged them to organise meetings frequently and bring out problems bothering the union and work on how best to resolve them .
