Involve women in market model design – NETRIGHT

Network for Women’s Rights in Ghana (NETRIGHT) has  called on the government to consider inclusion of market women in the design and execution of modern markets it said it would build.

The group said women were key players as far as marketplaces were concerned since they were largely engaged in buying and selling.

Ms Hilary Gbedemah, Director of Law Consult and a Member of NETRIGHT, made the call during a presentation on the Coalition’s end of year review of the status of women in Ghana.

She expressed happiness at the proposed new markets and said women deserved to work in decent market environment that has day care centres, toilet facilities, well connected electricity and potable water.

She said people working in the informal sector should be hooked onto the Social Security and National Insurance Trust.

Ms Gbedemah called for pre-emptive action to deal with emergence of child prostitution and new forms of violence against women.

She condemned cyber violence, the practice of photographing intimate encounters between males and females posted on the internet, verbal violence particularly against women in politics, harassment and indecent text messages

She appealed to policy makers to revise old policies that sought to prevent pregnant teachers, nursing and midwifery trainees from taking final examinations or staying in school to continue their programmes of study.

NETRIGHT is a coalition of civil society organisations and individuals who have interest in working together to bring a gender perspective in national processes and advocate policy change in ways that strengthen the work of individuals and organisations.

Source: GNA