Women Commissioners of various student unions
of the universities, professional students association and polytechnics on Monday called on leaders of political parties yet to pick running mates to consider choosing competent females.
"This will go a long way in harnessing our efforts for developing country," it said at a media briefing in Accra.
Miss Mary Exi Dzakpasu, Women's Commissioner, Ghana Union of Professional Students (GUPS), who read the statement on behalf of the other Commissioners, said women constituted 51 per cent of the total population hence the need for them to be given a fair representation in the political landscape.
She said the group, in collaboration with the Ministry of Women and Children's Affairs, had held a meeting to discuss the invaluable contribution that women were giving in the development of the nation.
"It became clear that women are making a persistent and well deserved clarion calls for fuller participation in their fields of endeavour, a call which should be heeded to by the powers that be," Miss Dzakpasu.
The students, she said, agreed that to motivate and reward various efforts by females in the country, women should be given the enabling environment for them to work and contribute their quota to development.
Miss Dzakpasu noted that the briefing was also meant to give further impetus their position and urge political and non-political leaders to heed their call for women's participation in various sectors of development.
She congratulated women who were playing different roles in the media and appealed to them to bring out certain aspects of the nation's culture that demeaned women in the society as well as the heroic contributions.
"I respectfully entreat the media to make targeted efforts to join the affirmative campaign to present the case of women to participate fully and unrestrictedly in our national development."
The Women's Commissioner advised all women to encourage and rally behind their fellow females who would want to assume various leadership roles in the society rather than discourage them.