Vice President Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang has urged all ministries to collaborate in mainstreaming gender considerations to reduce the burden on a single sector.
Prof Opoku-Agyemang gave the advice during her working visit to the Gender Ministry in Accra on the sidelines of a Breast Screening exercise to launch the Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
The occasion also saw the commemoration of the Day of Older Persons.
October, every year, is dedicated as Breast Cancer Awareness Month and this year’s theme is: “Catch it Early; Treat it Right; Survive it.”
The Vice President encouraged other ministries to be more sensitive and push women into the mainstream of their planning activities.
“… As I said, we are everywhere, whether it is politics or religion. Where are we not? Can you imagine one Sunday service without us? ” she asked.

Prof. Opoku-Agyemang called for collective efforts to ensure the vulnerable had their stresses reduced and led normal lives, while ensuring that children were properly brought up and the citizenry played their roles accordingly.
She condemned the Assistant Headmaster of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology Senior High School found in a compromising position with a a female student in a viral video.
“…But it is also a question of power, a question of some of us not paying attention to the nature of the responsibilities given to us in any place or work. Maybe not only in the schools, the workplace. It just happens too often,” she added.
The Vice President advocated education on those negative attitudes and to hold people accountable for their actions.
She urged the citizenry to work hard in coordination with the Government to ensure a better growth of the economy.
Dr Agnes Naa Momo Lartey, the Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, outlined the numerous achievements of the Ministry including the passage of the Social Protection Bill and the Affirmative Action Act.
“We continue to work to ensure the inclusion of women and empowerment of women, especially the economic empowerment of women,” she stated.
She highlighted the increased and prompt payment of grants to the beneficiaries of the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) programme.
“Today, as we speak, you will realise that we are not owing, in terms of the school feeding, and this is significant and a remarkable improvement,” Dr Lartey said.
“We acknowledge that there are still some challenges we face with the school feeding programme, but the assurance we give you is that we are working so hard with all stakeholders to ensure that we get to the desired expectations of every Ghanaian.”
She said the Ministry was in collaboration with other agencies to proffer stiffer punishment for the KNUST SHS assistant headmaster even though the Ghana Education Service had dismissed him to serve as a deterrent.
Dr Lartey applauded the media and the public for the continued support to the Ministry’s work by reporting cases of abuse and violence.