Mrs. Elizabeth Senyo-Pongo, Principal Auditor at the Volta Regional Audit Service, has asked women to strive harder in their quest for gender parity.
She said “if women want to be equal to men, they must work hard to earn it”.
Mrs. Senyo-Pongo made the call at the launch of Women’s Week Celebration of Ho Polytechnic on Friday on the theme: “An illustrious Woman, an Asset to the Society”.
She said achievements of illustrious women such as Madam Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of Liberia, reinforced the notion that women were as capable as men.
Mrs Senyo Pongo said even with the challenges of discrimination, pressures of polygamous marriages and child birth, women remained the “the bedrock of society.”
She observed that women could only focus through education, which “elevates the condition of women by its distinctive character and tendency
as a system of universal equity”.
Ms Dinah Ashitey, Women’s Commissioner of Ho Polytechnic, appealed to society take note of the importance of women and treat them equally.
The launch was chaired by Mrs. Emefa Jakpasu Afun, a teacher at Ho Polytechnic Basic School and wife of the Polytechnic’s Rector.