Mrs. Augustina Akumanyi, Deputy Chairman of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE), expressed worry that apart from election disputes, there exist the issue of fewer women seeking to be elected to occupy public offices.
She said women groups and other organizations had been supporting Ghanaian women to participate in elections yet there seemed to be little or no progress.
Mrs. Akumanyi made the observation at a stakeholders' workshop on electoral conflicts, at Akwatia.
She said the programme aimed at educating participants to encourage women to contest the upcoming district level elections.
Mrs. Akumanyi said that within a couple of months, the life span of the district assemblies and unit committees would come to an end.
She said that Ghanaians who had registered as voters would be requested to elect people into the assemblies and unit committees.
Mrs Akumanyi said that the district assembly and unit committee structures were critical to Ghana's democracy as contained in the 1992
Constitution.
She said there was the need for every citizen to be part of decision-making of the country and its development efforts.
Speaking on the topic "Women Representative in Active Politics in Ghana," the Eastern Regional Director of the NCCE, Mr Eric Bortey noted that
since independence, women had out-numbered men but due to cultural and traditional practices, women had been relegated to the background.
He expressed dissatisfaction that contribution of women to national development had been considered as supportive or peripheral.
Mr Bortey called for comprehensive training for officials to enable them easily work with women in economic and social institutional frameworks.