When you read such reports, your heart does not only increases its beats, but as a reasonable person, you are compelled to ask yourself; what sort of cockroaches do we have in authority in some of our Ghanaian institutions?
When I studied for my first degree in London, I had not less than 4 pregnant women in my year group each year—-one of my good friends even had a child right before we completed Law School. These were young students, with ages ranging from 19-26.
At my postgraduate university, the story was the same, except that I even had several mothers at the Law School and interestingly, the universities (both undergraduate and postgraduate level) went the beyond ordinary to accommodate the needs of the mothers and pregnant women so that the lives they had chosen did not serve as a bulwark to their education and empowerment.
All around the world, women are directly and indirectly oppressed and discriminated against, and they are forced to reside at the bottom of the conversation.
I always tell people that, women struggling for equality or feminism does not necessary mean women want to be like men, but it mainly means they want their needs to be rightfully accommodated, be treated fairly as men would be treated and have their own female needs well documented and taken into special consideration.
The struggles of women are mostly different from men and it’s such struggles that the existing patriarchy ignores, entrenches or make worse—despite the over flow of laws that seek to elevate women.
A woman must have children, be a wife and be educated; yet in a 21st century Ghana, “3 female students of the Nurses and Midwifery Training School, Mampong, Ashanti have been denied opportunity to register and write their licensing Exams with the Nurses and Midwifery Council on grounds that they are pregnant,” reports Atinka Fm.
It’s offensive and an indictment on all of us that such a thing has even taken place in Ghana—-in view of the global call for women empowerment, through education and independence.
And the shocking part is, these women are not even young girls where you could offensively argue that they are students and have no business getting pregnant. One of them is a married woman of 35 years.

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