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Among women in the poorest households, only 57.4% have ever registered with the National Health Insurance Scheme, as compared with 74.2% of women in the richest households in Ghana. [15] Women in urban areas also had higher registration rates than women in rural areas (70.9% and 66.3%, respectively). [ 15 ]
One of the main reasons for the high incidence is Women in Ghana live in a highly patriarchal society where the man/father is the head of the household and takes all major household decisions. [23] Also many spouses are reluctant to report to police and would rather consult their local spiritual leader.
The Safe Schools Project, [6] funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) endeavors to address the pressing issue of sexual, physical, and psychological abuse of schoolgirls in Ghana. Over the course of two years the Gender Centre trained 120 counselors from thirty communities in the Central Region of Ghana to ...
More women are becoming digital nomads. Picking the right destination can be overwhelming. When it comes to health and safety, here's what to know.
Ghana's lawmakers on Tuesday passed a law to give more opportunities to women at the national level, the speaker of parliament said, with a target to increase their participation in governance and ...
The document also describes everyday conditions for women in Ghana, and demands that the government takes steps to ensure women's human rights by 2010. [5] It demands that the government ensure women's access to safe and effective reproductive health care, including abortions. [4]
Community safety, defined as the percentage of women and girls older than 15 who were polled by Gallup World Poll and answered that they felt safe walking alone where they live. Political violence targeting women, measured as the number of political violence events against women per 100,000 women. Proximity to conflict, measured as percentage ...
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