Talk:Women in Ghana

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Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment
This article is or was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Mlb13. Peer reviewers: Natsz72, Ljk3.

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Proposed edits
This article contains some holes in the information it offers. I would like to reorganize its content and expand on it. The new format will contain five major sections total, including four new ones: Education, Employment, Family Structure, and Healthcare. I would like to expand on the implementation of universal elementary education and how it actually affects girls in practice, and the differences in rural versus urban education for girls. I would also like to discuss societal views on women’s education in Ghana and how those have implications for girls’ behavior. I would also like to give some statistics on educational attainment between girls and boys. The employment section will discuss the history of women’s opportunities in the workforce and the different kinds of careers they have generally been a part of in the past and today. For the family structure section, the subsections that I would like to discuss individually in this article include daughters' roles, marriage, fertility, contraception, and child rearing. Issues such as polygamy, religion’s role in the female family role, and of course how the woman’s role in the family has evolved over time will be discussed. Healthcare will be the last new section. I will discuss the differences in healthcare access between women and men in Ghana in general, rural women and urban women, and women in poverty and women of higher socioeconomic status. I would also like to discuss common health concerns for Ghanaian women and at what rate these illnesses are successfully treated for all types of women in Ghana. I will keep Feminist Organizing as the last section and expand on it. I would like to discuss not only the different ways the women have come together to speak out for feminism, but also the reactions from men and potentially the government. The existing article has some neutrality issues, which I would like to fix. Keeping a neutral point of view might be a little difficult when discussing issues in which I feel injustice is prevalent, so I would appreciate any suggestions on how to accomplish this. I am open to any other suggestions that one might have regarding how I can make my contribution substantial. Kiarasanchez12 (talk) 04:41, 27 February 2014 (UTC)


 * Hi Kiarasanchez12, Nice one, get on with your assignment. I'll follow alone. Hope to learn from your contributions myself too :-). Won't hesitate to add suggestions. Regards. →Enock 4 seth  (talk) 08:38, 27 February 2014 (UTC)

Peer Review
For the most part, this article is very good overall; it is extremely comprehensive in the areas it addresses with good writing, neutrality, and content. The only things I can think that need to be addressed are the low number of sources for such a long article and the lack of illustrations. However, I know both of these things can be difficult to find, especially for a topic like this, and your article is already really strong without them. I'd suggest check the Wikimedia Commons for pictures you could use, if there are any available. Your existing sources are also very good, and while additional ones would be helpful, I don't think it's necessary. In terms of actual contect, I'm interested to know if there's any kind of female political participation, if there is any kind of documented gender pay gap, and if domestic violence is a problem. This article is really great so far, it's a huge topic and you've done a great job at addressing it comprehensively and accessibly. Baileybrash (talk) 16:36, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

Hey Kiara, nice work so far! I believe you've provide a broad scope of information in this article, with great writing and statistics. Similar to Bailey, I would be interested in a subsection that describes the institutional discrimination against women in Ghana, from legislation to social norms. Still, great work! jeanygina (talk) 05:14, 1 May 2014 (UTC)

Domestic Violence section merged from Domestic Violence in Ghana
Kiarasanchez12 (talk) 17:06, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

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Splitting Domestic violence
I think Domestic violence in Ghana should be a seperate article as there is enough third person information to support an article. Dwanyewest (talk) 05:17, 14 April 2016 (UTC)
 * I believe this would be useful to anyone interested Dwanyewest (talk) 14:20, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

Possible Additions and References
Hello, Wiki community! The following are proposed changes I think could benefit the overall description and clarity of the page; please let me know if you have any feedback! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Irishou (talk • contribs) 09:49, 22 February 2018 (UTC)

This reference can be added to the "Health" category, but can be used to add a Sexual and Reproductive Health subheading. The source describes women's use of contraceptives, such as condoms, their tendency for abortion, and how this all affects their education of sexual violence.

This reference will contribute information that ties together women's education, economic status, and maternal health and how it impacts their empowerment. This relationship mapping will describe how likely it is for women to have certain access to aspects that can ascertain and ensure maternal health when that coincides with another trait.

This source mostly speaks to the gender norms and traditions that are instilled upon women, and how those contribute to the inequality that is inherent in poverty. This means that there is a greater effect on women.

Irishou (talk) 09:22, 22 February 2018 (UTC)

Orphaned references in Women in Ghana
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Women in Ghana's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "BBC": From President of Ghana:  From Women in Palestine: Palestinian women 'suffer doubly', BBC News, March 31, 2005 From Timeline of women's legal rights (other than voting):  From Witch camp:  From Women in Myanmar: Harding, Andrew. Burmese women in Thai 'human zoo', 30 January 2008. From Women in Singapore: Singapore women 'forward in sex', BBC News, March 12, 2001 From Women in warfare and the military (2000–present): "Iraq's 'female bomber recruiter'", BBC News, 4 February 2009</li> <li>From Femen: Ukraine protest over NZ 'win a wife' competition prize, BBC News (2 March 2011)</li> <li>From Women in space: </li> </ul>

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 16:36, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

Violence Against Women Section
Hello! I am interested in adding a violence against women section for this page. I would like to create a new article about violence against women in Ghana and link it to this page. I plan on including information an multiple forms of violence against women in Ghana, such as sexual assault and domestic violence. I would also like to include information on laws in Ghana that relate to violence against women as well as well as a section on activism in Ghana against violence. I am still in the very early process of collecting research. Mlb13 (talk) 04:01, 6 September 2018 (UTC)

Proposed Edits
Hello! I am planning a large edit to this page. The current article is not up to wikipedia standards. I would like to add a "crimes against women" page that details the different types of crimes against women that are present in Ghana. I also plan on adding a "politics" section and adding relevant information about women in the political system. Additionally, I will be adding sources and information to the "health" and "education" sections. Feel free to look at my sandbox page to gain further information about my plan for editing this page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Mlb13/sandbox Mlb13 (talk) 17:20, 25 September 2018 (UTC)

Peer Evaluation 1
Hi! I really enjoyed reading the sections that you added and edited! You did a great job drawing from a variety of scholarly sources and representing many different viewpoints. Your content is comprehensive and thorough. Your lead reflects the most important information in the article, but it gives more weight to women’s rights than other topics. I would suggest shortening the amount you talk about women’s rights in the lead or extending your section on women’s rights in the article. I also recommend contextualizing your statistics and quotes with the source and relevant details to explicitly show that the information is credible and based on legitimate research. A final minor recommendation would be to add a couple more blue links in each section and make sure you link the articles the first time the word comes up. I'm excited to read your final product! Ljk3 (talk) 23:05, 24 October 2018 (UTC)

Peer Review
Your article is overall really good! I was impressed by the way you seamlessly merged your sections into the larger article, I could not even tell what work was new/original, great job! The only suggestion I have is just making sure to include other points of view in more detail. When writing a section, maybe just try to find information that talks about opposing viewpoints. Some of the points you made were very interesting but left me wanting to read more! Overall, great job! Natsz72 (talk) 02:51, 25 October 2018 (UTC)

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