By: Nyima Sillah
Marr Nyang, Human Rights Activist has echoed that men are normally giving more leadership roles in the offices than women in terms of promotion, and more.
Speaking to The Voice in an interview, Mr. Nyang said: “in the offices, there is what we call equal employment opportunities and this is sometimes not the case because men are normally giving more leadership roles in the office than the women. In terms of promotions, men tend to get them even though they share the same qualifications and experiences with the women,”
“In our executive (arms of government), we have three Ministers that are females out of almost twenty ministerial positions and when you go to the National Assembly also 8% of the composition of the National Assembly are females, it is disheartening,” he stressed.
He reminded that the bill passed to promote female representatives in the National Assembly was not supported by the National Assembly member.
However, he said “If you go to the official market the abuse that women faced in their workforce, especially private corporations, actually deprive women of getting the required maternal leave that they are qualified for. In some cases when they are pregnant and they take maternal leave they will be replaced of their positions. This is illegal and also violating the labour laws of the country.”
According to him, there will be limited domestic violence against women in societies if accountability is high. Adding that as long as there is sensitization, there is law, there should be accountability so that people can learn lesson from it.
“I believe in as much as there are some significant progress has been registered there is still rooms to improve and make sure we cut the societal type of domestic violence.”
According to him, domestic violence happens more in societies than in offices. Male beating their wives, raping them also girls getting married at a very early age against their will are all societal domestic violence existing in the society.
