Lifestyle coach Queen Esther Jackson says women’s contribution towards independence and national development lurks in the shadows since they fail to recognize themselves.
According to her, women hardly honor their fellows and are not ready to make successful ones as their mentors.
Speaking in an interview on Max Morning Agenda in Accra on Monday, Queen Esther, who is also the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Nubian Queen Cosmetics, noted that the country also failed to document things, hence the reason many women who helped in the attainment of independence were not recognized.
She said that the lack of documentation had made the current generation unaware of the first ten female parliamentarians in Ghana.
“Even if you ask students who was the first female minister appointed in Ghana, the student wouldn’t be able to answer, but if you ask them something about the first woman in America who has done something, the student will be able to answer it right,” Queen said.
She indicated that women in Ghana were mostly marginalized to an extent that they were hardly recognized for their efforts.
“But I don’t blame those who marginalized us because women are multitasking; they are not straight. They switch roles; she is playing the role of a first minister at the same time as a wife and a mother. If she is a minister and her husband is a minister, she would have to see to it that her husband is well dressed and the children are well fed, among other things.”
“Also, the hormones of women affect them. The system of a woman changes four times in the month. Sometimes you become moody; during ovulation you become stressed up and feel pain; after ovulation you become joyful, so women are dicey creatures and are difficult to understand by some people,” Queen stated.
She observed that women wield tremendous power, and “independence” in the hands of men without the immeasurable support of women would have left the country in shambles.
Queen expressed her admiration for Dr. Kwame Nkrumah for recognizing Rebecca Naa Dedei Aryeetey, widely known as Dedei Ashikishan, who was a well-known businesswoman and political activist from Ghana who lived from 1923 to 1961.
She was the chief financier of the Convention People’s Party, and because of her sale of flour, she sponsored the party relentlessly.
Naming some women who also contributed immensely towards attainment of independence and national development, she mentioned Theodosia Salome Okoh, the sportswoman who designed the Ghana flag; Esther Ocloo; Afua Sutherland; Hannah Esi Badu Kudjoe; and Allice Anum, a female sprinter and the first woman to represent Ghana at three consecutive Olympic games; she was known as the original baby jet.
Source: Ghana/MaxTV/MaxFM/max.com.gh/Joyceline Natally Cudjoe
