Consider woman with disability for deputy gender minister VOWAC-Ghana to Mahama [Video]

In a release by the group, it noted that while it had been encouraged by the president’s appointment of women to his administration, it bemoaned the lack of representation in relation to naming females with disabilities to serve in top positions.

“We appreciate the government for appointing women into ministerial and key leadership positions as an effort to achieve the 30% women representation in the gender equality law.

VOWACGhana wishes to draw the attention of the president to the fact that women with disabilities are missing in his appointments and for several decades have continuously been excluded from leadership and participation in this country,” the statement signed by the group’s Acting Executive Director, Juliana Afia Mahmood, read …