It’s absurd and repugnant that women who have long been marginalised and discriminated against by men, supported by the many patriarchal institutions who are working extra hard to empower themselves through education in Ghana are intentionally being denied the right to be fully educated or certified, without unreasonable interferences.
A few days ago, GhanaCelebrities.Com picked up a report that,“3 female students of the Nurses and Midwifery Training School, Mampong, Ashanti have been denied opportunity to register and write their licensing Exams with the Nurses and Midwifery Council on grounds that they are pregnant.”
I stated in my related commentary that; “It’s offensive and an indictment on all of us that such a thing has even taken place in Ghana—-in view of the global call for women empowerment, through education and independence.
And the shocking part is, these women are not even young girls where you could offensively argue that they are students and have no business getting pregnant. One of them is a married woman of 35 years.”
Despite “Ghana’s domestic laws prohibiting discrimination; and discrimination based on gender or pregnancy or marriage is globally outlawed by the various Human Rights instruments”—this is happening in Ghana and it’s not even just in one institution, it seems to be a cut-across institutional practice.
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