It is always beneficial to be self sufficient and independent. It’s also restrictive to depend on others. Learn a skill, be self-supporting.
Young girls and women in Ghana have been taught to serve men and depend on them but is it helpful? Is it beneficial to the women or even the family?
The fact is, anything can happen; life has unpleasant surprises such as deaths, illnesses disabilities or even breakups. So how can a woman support herself or her family if she primarily relies on her husband for her day-to-day needs?
What protections does the woman have in times of death since properties are often tilted in the men’s name?
Have you witnessed or heard women ejected from family properties or residences when their husbands died or became incapacitated? Have you seen children lose all their entitlements and future opportunities when their father or parents died?
Why is it still acceptable for women to depend on and put of their career off in support of their spouses if they cannot be guaranteed of any protections?
Women who tend to depend on men have no escape avenues when they face domestic violence and other abuses.
Girls and women should be encouraged and taught to acquire education, skills and career to support themselves and their family.
Skilled, self-supporting and educated women are in better positions in case of any uneventialities such as deaths, illnesses, disabilities and divorces.
Women’s empowerment is beneficial to them, their husbands, families, communities and society as a whole.
Akosgojack media
Saturday April 13, 2019.
