When discussing the careers of women leaders, there’s a phenomenon referred to as the “glass cliff.” It’s an obvious relative to the term glass ceiling, which describes the invisible barrier to […]
Category: Gender
Don’t shield perpetrators of sexual, domestic violence — GLOMEF warns community chiefs
The Global Media Foundation (GLOMEF), human rights and anti-corruption advocacy media organization has ended this year’s 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence Campaign with a call on traditional leaders […]
Women’s perspectives and voices need more inclusion in Covid-19 media coverage
As media coverage of Covid-19 continues 24/7, it routinely ignores an important dimension of the crisis: its impact on women. Writers — journalists, as well as opinion and commentary writers […]
The deadly but preventable epidemic we’re not talking about
Every day, 137 women around the world are killed by a family member. 52 of those killings take place in Africa alone. Ousmane Diagana, Vice President of the World Bank […]
Women CEOs Discuss Gender Equity And Leadership
Back in 2011 I remember first sharing in my Forbes column my belief that we needed to get to 50 Fortune 500 women CEOs, which incidentally is still only a […]
A vote for women is a vote for growth
There cannot be any excuse for the low representation of women in the Parliament of Ghana. Currently, women occupy 37 out of the 275 seats in Parliament. This represents only […]
41% of women in politics have experienced gender-based violence – Survey
The Gender Centre for Empowering Development (GenCED) on Tuesday December 1, 2020 launched a research report on “Violence Against Women Within Political Parties”. The research, which covered the operations, structures, […]
WOMEC trains 40 adolescent girls in gender based violence eradication
Forty adolescent girls in Kpone have received facilitators’ training on the eradication of gender based violence in the country. The beneficiaries were drawn from Kpone Methodist Basic A, Kpone Methodist […]
WOMEC marks 16 days of activism against gender based violence in Kpone
The Women, Media and Change (WOMEC), a non-governmental organization has organised a forum to sensitise adolescent girls living in Kpone, a suburb in Tema as part of its efforts to […]
Are we missing a game changer? Gender-based violence and social protection
I want to talk about an area that is little known, often misunderstood, yet promising – what we know about the links between gender-based violence and social protection. We know […]
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