Gender, Children and Social Protection minister-designate, Cynthia Morrison, has indicated she is not a feminist, hence will ensure that issues of men are not relegated to the background during her tenure.
She assured that the Ministry, which has been viewed as championing mainly issues of women and children, will focus on issues of men in order to succeed.
“When you want to get things right for women, we have to bring the men along; without the men, we can’t succeed,” she said on 3FM’s Sunrise Morning show on Friday.
Ms. Morrison who is the Member of Parliament for Agona West said she would rally men behind her, saying “the men will be our shoulders we will cry on and know that you [men] are going to pamper us and make our works succeed”.
The MP is an educationist by profession said she grew up in an all “girls home,” explained she is not a “girls, girls person.
“I like to bring boys together; so the men, we are going to work together and make sure that you get your due, not to separate you even though you are stronger than us, we will make it work” she assured.
She said she is an open-minded person and ever ready to receive suggestions from the people, adding, “when I’m going wrong, call me. Don’t wait for the thing to escalate and then come and sit on air and talk about it; day one when you hear of it call me”.
Ghana’s adoption system, she said, will be another issue that she will look at.
“Let’s look at the adoption system in the country, we can all attest to the fact that they are venerable children who unfortunately find themselves in places that they shouldn’t be,” she observed
“They have to get a home that is number one. I believe that every child should be in a children’s home, every child should have a regular home, unless of course, somebody is taking care of them,” she added.
Ms. Morrison said it was unfortunate that both juveniles and adults were being kept exposing them to a lot of things which eventually make the juveniles come out destroyed.
“Unfortunately today, you hear a 17-year-old is in the same cell with an elderly person like fifty or something and even in the same jail with them. They come back rather not reformed, they come back destroyed”
Accordingly, she said she is exploring how that will be addressed children will be separated from adults in prison and police cells in order to give them education and trade to ensure they come out as better persons.
“I’m praying that during my tenure, we can have a centre for the elderly even if it’s a shield; a place where they can sit and socialize. We realize that when they are old and alone they begin to talk to themselves when there is no body,” she said
Source: 3news
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Bravo Paa Osei. It takes a real man to champion the rights of women. A real man isn't intimidated when he sees women progressing. As for all those backward people who are fighting tooth and nail against feminism, I wish them Godspeed because it is only a matter of time before women take their rightful place in society. Women will no longer tolerate being treated like second-class citizens. Women will no longer accept being told to ***barred word***. Women will no longer accept being relegated to the background. And as for the gender minister, she is a total disgrace to the position she hopes to occupy. Someone better sit her down and educate her, else she'll look like a total i_di_iot
Paa Osei 1&2 there is an intellectual dishonesty in what you have written. Feminism after the second wave of feminism has never been for gender equality. It has never been.The third wave of feminism on wards has just been a dislike and disdain and outright hatred for men. Listen carefully to all the leading feminists of the 2nd and third feminists. A good example is what has happened in Germany where the men having been emasculated and derided so much that they do not want anything to do with the females in that country. Women used their acid tongue to direct vitriol even to parliamentarians to the extent that they passed any law proposed by the acid tongue feminists. Now the social system broke down to the extent that marriage became a rarity affecting child birth. Now population distribution has become top heavy and they need young people to replenish the population so Merkel imported young men to impregnate their women. They have now blocked these young men from bringing their wives and girlfriends from Syria and the war torn countries. This is what the policy makers and politicians will not tell you. They supported and encouraged feminism to the extent that the social system was engineered beyond repair. Europe is now under the course of feminism. Today, women are those who have turned against feminism because they are at the end of its terrible effect. For me I want the vitriol against men to continue as it puts women in the position of doing the chasing. Today in the UK, lonely women are on their knees and offering their modesty on a silver platter. Jamaica has turned against feminism as it has destroyed their society. Their men are so fed up that they do not want anything to do with their women. Please do not indulge in intellectual deception.
Being a feminist doesn't mean you relegate the issue of men to the background. As a woman, I guess, you might have one way or the other been confronted with a reaction or an attitude which was purely predetermined because of the opinions the society had all the years internalized about women. These internalized misvalues had sadly become the sole factors in predicting or accessing and rating the capabilities of a woman. I find it strange and inconceivable when a woman CEO gets less pay than her male counterpart for the same performance. This internalized convention or undervalues attributed to females are outdated and baseless. With which I wouldn't want to treat men like that either. So being a feminist is to stand for Gender Equality, both for female and male alike. It is indeed, indiscriminating. I think the Minister-designate should come again on this issue.
Please, who wrote this article? The English is in a poor taste.
Being a feminist doesn't mean you relegate the issue of men to the background. As a woman, I guess, you might have one way or the other been confronted by an action or attitude which was purely predetermined because of what the society internalized opinions about women, becoming the sole factor in predicting or accessing your capability. I find it strange and inconceivable when a woman CEO gets less pay than her male counterpart for the same performance. This internalized conversion or values attributed to females are outdated and baseless. And I wouldn't want to treat men like that either. So being a feminist is to stand for Gender Equality, both for female and male. It is indeed, indiscriminating. I think the Minister-designate should come again on this issue.