Approach For Women Empowerment In Africa Copied Blindly From the West – Lucia Quachey

Lucia Quachey, the CEO of Ghana Association of Women Entrepreneurs (GAWE) has said the approach adopted for women empowerment in Ghana was wrong from the onset.

Quachey said the strategy adopted in Africa for women empowerment has failed to yield the needed result because the culture of the continent was not taken into consideration.

Talking to Kwaku Nhyira-Addo on The Asaase Breakfast Show on Monday (28 March), Quachey said: “The approach and strategy that was being used in the beginning for women empowerment was flawed because they used stratagems from Europe when our culture is different.”

“Under Nkrumah’s constitution, men and women were equal but our culture was so flawed that even the legality of the constitution could not supersede it.

“Women empowerment became a fight rather than a quest to change the ideology of women being lesser to women becoming partners. I remember people terming empowerment a ‘fight’ when women at that time needed to understand that our culture is entirely different from the Europeans, ” she said.

Source: asaaseradio