{"id":105844,"date":"2025-12-08T08:25:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T08:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=105844"},"modified":"2025-12-08T08:25:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T08:25:16","slug":"mahama-lauds-womens-progress-in-ghana-draws-lessons-from-chinas-development-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=105844","title":{"rendered":"Mahama lauds women\u2019s progress in Ghana, draws lessons from China\u2019s development model"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President John Dramani Mahama says both Ghana and China have made significant progress in advancing women\u2019s rights and expanding opportunities across education, governance, science and technology.<\/p>\n

Speaking in an exclusive interview on China Global Television Network (CGTN) as part of the commemoration of 65 years of Ghana\u2013China diplomatic relations, Mr Mahama said gender parity in Ghana\u2019s basic and secondary school enrolment reflects a major shift from previous decades.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have gender parity when it comes to enrolment in school, as many girls are going to school as boys. Before, it wasn\u2019t the same,\u201d he noted, adding that more Ghanaian women are now occupying top positions in public service and national governance.<\/p>\n

Mr Mahama praised China\u2019s progress in empowering women, referencing President Xi Jinping\u2019s speech at the Global Leaders Meeting on Women, where \u201cthe word development was mentioned more than 20 times,\u201d underscoring China\u2019s recognition of women as central to national advancement.<\/p>\n

Citing Chinese data, the CGTN host highlighted that women account for 43% of employment in high-quality development sectors<\/em>, 45.8% in science and technology roles<\/em>, and nearly one-third of the digital trade, e-commerce, and live-streaming economy<\/em> \u2014 figures Mr Mahama described as evidence of rapid, meaningful progress.<\/p>\n

The interview forms part of broader discussions on the evolving Ghana\u2013China partnership, which spans trade expansion, industrialisation support, vocational training, and China\u2019s proposed Global Governance Initiative.<\/p>\n

The conversation also revisited President Mahama\u2019s recent meeting with President Xi, where both sides explored new areas of cooperation, including the ongoing push for a potential zero-tariff agreement and deeper collaboration in industrial value addition.<\/p>\n

As Ghana strengthens its female workforce and consolidates gains in education and leadership, Mahama said the country stands to benefit from China\u2019s experience in integrating women into fast-growing economic sectors.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\"MahamaPresident John Dramani Mahama says both Ghana and China have made significant progress in advancing women\u2019s rights and expanding opportunities across education, governance, science and technology.<\/p>\n

Speaking in an exclusive interview on China Global Television Network (CGTN) as part of the commemoration of 65 years of Ghana\u2013China diplomatic relations, Mr Mahama said gender parity in Ghana\u2019s basic and secondary school enrolment reflects a major shift from previous decades.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_2277560469115098_106292521332774":"","twitter_aToxNzczMzI3Njk4OTg4ODUxMjAxOw==_1773327698988851200":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4319,536,111,1883,10,9,5602],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-ghana","category-mahama","category-national","category-politics","category-popular","category-women"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}