Religion of Sunday, 24 November 2019Source: www.ghananewsagency.orgReligious, traditional leaders resolve to end gender job stereotypingParticipants during the forumReligious and traditional leaders at Karaga District in the Northern Region have resolved to take steps to contribute to reducing gender job stereotyping in the area to ensure that both males and females earn decent incomes. Gender job stereotyping is the mapping of jobs onto gender where society puts labels on those jobs and such labels create unsubstantiated expectation about those jobs with further entrenchment of stereotypes about male and female competencies. Mr Sulemana Fuseini, Gender Desk Officer, Karaga District Assembly, said “what men can do, women can equally do it” saying he would advocate for an end to gender job stereotyping at the Assembly level to ensure opportunities for all. Chief of Monkula Community said times have changed, hence the need for all to change to pave way for the development saying women even farmed nowadays more than men and the gender job stereotyping should not be entertained. He called on government and other civil society organisations to also assist and encourage people, who performed opposite sex jobs, in ways that would be beneficial to them.

Source: GhanaWeb November 24, 2019 14:15 UTC