July 11th is World Population Day, a day to highlight important population issues. The first World Population Day was commemorated 31 years ago in 1989.
The theme for this year is "Putting the brakes on COVID-19: how to safeguard the health and rights of women and girls now"
Research from UNFPA projects that the pandemic will have devastating effects on the well-being of females from increased risk of domestic violence and maternal death, reduced access to family planning and greater likelihood of child marriages.
Read more on the harmful practices for girls here and in the State of the World Population 2020 report.
Showing posts with label gender inequality. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gender inequality. Show all posts
11 July 2020
8 March 2020
International Women's Day
Today is International Women's Day - a day to shine a spotlight on gender inequality.
The recent Afrobarometer press release indicated that women in Ghana continue to lag behind males in a number of areas - financial decision-making, political interest and participation, ownership of key assets and education. We have commented earlier on some of the gender differences in science in Ghana.
The U.N provides the sobering information that not a single country has achieved gender equality out of a 129 studied and additionally none are on track to meet the gender-based Sustainable Development Goal indicators.
Sustainable Development Goal 5 which seeks achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls is the main SDG on gender. Today we present three SDG5 indicators for Ghana using available data from the 2017/2018 Multiple Cluster Indicator Survey (MICS).
11 February 2020
International Day of Women and Girls in Science
It's also that time of the year in Ghana where the annual National Science and Math Quiz (NSMQ) excitement begins to build across the country. A look at the winner's list indicates that no girls school has ever won the competition in its 25 year history. A mixed-sex school has won twice in 1998 and 2004; all other winners have been all boys schools.
Girls tend to lag behind boys in science, globally and not just in Ghana. Females lag behind males in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields - both in school and in the labour force. Females are more likely to enrolled in STEM educational programmes or working in STEM jobs.
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