Workshop For Women Unionists

The nineth in a series of Gender Sensitisation Workshops for members of the Women's wing of the Public Services Workers Union in the Northern Region is being held in Tamale. The workshop which is in line with the TUC's Gender Policy adopted at the University of Cape Coast last year, is aimed at empowering female members of the Union to participate effectively in its activities. Addressing the participants, the Acting General Secretary of the Union, Mr.. A.T.D. Okine, said since the Union's establishment in the late 1950s, women have been marginalised to a large extent. He noted that even though women constitute about 30 percent of the Unions membership, only a few of them are active in its affairs. The National Chairman of the PSWU, Mr.. Samuel Mensah Nyarko, told the GBC that the Union hopes to assist its women activists to acquire marketable skills that will enable them to run their homes.