President of the Commonwealth of Learning, Professor Ashya Singh Kanwar, is worried that in spite of the numerous campaign of gender equality and women empowerment, Africa and some part of the world still have no or few women in leadership position.
She said in many parts of the world, women are performing above men academically in the universities but this is not reflecting in the field of leadership.
She said there is the need to invest in skills development of women to enhance women participation in leadership and managerial role.
She however, admonished women to take up leadership role at every level they find themselves.
Professor Ashya Singh Kanwar made these comments at the Women in Technical Education and Development Conference organized by the Koforidua Polytechnic under the theme: Women In Leadership and Sustainable Development.
Professor Kanwar's Commonwealth of Learning is an intergovernmental organisation created by Commonwealth Heads of Government to promote the development and sharing of open learning and distance education knowledge, resources and technologies.
She said African leaders must tackle poverty with modules and policies that would be tailored to empowering and addressing the social and economic needs of women who are marginalised and disadvantage in society.
According to her, poverty has a female face that must be tackled with social intervention modules and policies.
Rector of the Koforidua Polytechnic Professor Smile Dzisi indicated that the polytechnic has built the capacity of many female staff to take up leadership positions.
She said, the Koforidua Polytechnic is developing modules to expand its open and distance learning programs to give opportunity to many people who want to learn with an emphasis on female.
She revealed that in keeping with the technical university status, the school is determined to introduce more science and technology programs that would go to supplement existing ones.
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