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CPP dared women to enter professions ostensibly designated for men
By Angela Ayimbire, GNA
Tema-Ghana, July 31, – The Convention Peoples’ Party (CPP) has dared women to enter professional fields purportedly reserved for men and challenge the status quo, break barriers, and make an impact in whatever field of endeavour.
Nanahemaa Frempong Sarpong Kumankuma, CPP Chairperson and Leader, who made the admonishment, encouraged women to acquire professional skills through formal academic pursuit or informal apprenticeship: “We must not be satisfied with any position; we must dare to climb upwards”.
She urged women to organize things properly as they acquire skills in the various fields and move into the technology field.
Nana Kumankuma, who is a CPP Election 2024 Flagbearer Hopeful, noted that even though the voices for women’s equality, advancement, and advocacy continue to gain momentum, they are not making the required impact; therefore, women must catalyze the change through impactful engagement at the top level.
She said “We cannot simply continue an outdated conversation for women’s equality; the rate of change is not fast enough for the heightened expectations around equality”.
She said data in Ghana continue to show that women are not moving towards equality, despite the best intentions of gender advocates. Structures continue to emerge to fight against the interests of women.
Nana Kumankuma noted that in the political, economic, governance, social, religious, and other fields, the national and grassroots movements have only created dialogue and sparked conversation around gender parity; “we have not yet fuelled enough fire to evolve thinking or pushed through to see substantive change”.
“If we are to challenge the status quo and impact change, we must consider how our biases, conscious or unconscious, are affecting our daily conversations and practices,” she said.
The CPP Chairperson and Flagbearer Aspirant noted that these biases could include the tendency to associate with people who remind us of ourselves or searching for information in a way that confirms our own perceptions and firmly held beliefs.
“These actions maintain the status quo within the organization and do not challenge the established norms that may be excluding underrepresented people in the organization.
“We need to dig deeper to explore our differences and challenge the status quo. This logic can transcend the more practical applications, such as recruiting strategies, hiring practices, or promotion criteria, and ask us all to self-reflect,” she said.
