Hello,
I would like to contribute on "Question 3: How best can we achieve gender transformative impacts".
I strongly believe in the power of education and the influence our educational systems can have in making our fight for gender equality feasible. The world is where it is today because of the way we were educated and brought up some years back. Before the second world war, most women never worked because they weren't given the opportunities to do so, until the need arose for women to work in factories and production houses because most of the men who actually were the workforce at that time had gone to war. Since then, the liberation of women has been slow but sure, but we all agree that more needs to be done.
I believe special modules on gender equality should be incorporated in our school systems right from primary school. We shouldn't wait till we get to the university and then start hearing about gender equality. By then, society would have pumped in so many ideologies that make people function in a biased manner uncosciously.
But if we are to start from down up, we will have a whole new generation of people who think differently. Thank you.
Dr. Samuel Opoku Gyamfi
Regional Coordinator - North Africa
CSAYN.
Dr. Samuel Opoku Gyamfi