By: Mabel Adorkor Annang
For Ghana to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 7, which is to ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy, it is required that women are actively included in all facets of the industry’s operations.
Chief of Staff, Akosua Frema Osei Opare said this at the 2022 Women in Energy Conference in Accra.
Ghanaian women in energy have gathered in Accra, to deliberate on issues affecting gender equality in the energy sector and the role women can play in achieving energy transition.
The three-day Women in Energy conference attracted women actors in the public and private institutions in the power and petroleum sectors to discuss and share ideas on how to increase women’s participation in the energy sector.
Stakeholders asserted that to promote gender parity, successive governments have to encourage Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, STEM education to allow students to acquire critical and independent thinking skills and become creative in solving problems.
The Chief of Staff, Akosua Frema Osei Opare said promoting clean energy must be the priority of women in the energy sector.
According to her, women represent 50.7 percent of Ghana’s population and are important energy consumers due to their traditional role in household chores and the agri-food sector, therefore, stressing the need for women to be interested in clean cooking initiatives.
