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The Gender Desk of ICU has
inaugurated the Times Ladies Association. The New Times Corporation is probably
the second largest Print media house in Ghana. The Times Ladies, as they prefer
to be called, will help address women’s issue at the enterprise level and also
organise programmes that will educate other women in Ghana on things that
affect them as workers and mothers of the country.
A seven member executive
committee was sworn into office to steer the affairs of the Association to make
sure that the purpose of its formation is realised to a successful end. These
officers will be in office for a period of four years.
During the inauguration, Sister
Marku Vondee, a principal industrial Relations officer of ICU advised the
ladies that today’s trade union activities are not limited to only men and that they need
to take active role to making sure that they get the full benefits of Trade
Unionism, and for that matter what ICU has in store for them.
Jenifer Taylor, a Principal Industrial
Relations officer in charge of Gender activities in ICU urged the Times Ladies
to actively get involved in building a better Ghana, by making their voices
heard positively. She was of the view
that anytime Ghana is praised in West Africa and beyond as having good stock of
human resources, they should know that indirectly they the people who are being
praised for the role they have played in bringing the country to that level,
and that as mothers, and workers at the same time, the task at hand is a
difficult one and it calls for putting in place effective realistic strategies
to be able to manage the home and the work at the same time.
She advised that so much power lies
in education and that it will be a serious mistake for them to fail to help
educate other women who have very little knowledge about trade unionism and the
rights of the female worker.
Sister Jenifer advised that Ghana
can appropriately fight and win the battle against HIV if women take active
role in the campaign for having safe sex as a tool against the disease.