{"id":203641,"date":"2025-07-31T03:41:02","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T01:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghanas-affirmative-action-act-is-a-crucial-step-towards-gender-equity-but-now-the-real-work-begins\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T03:41:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T01:41:02","slug":"ghanas-affirmative-action-act-is-a-crucial-step-towards-gender-equity-but-now-the-real-work-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghanas-affirmative-action-act-is-a-crucial-step-towards-gender-equity-but-now-the-real-work-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana&#8217;s Affirmative Action Act is a Crucial Step Towards Gender Equity &#8211; But Now the Real Work Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">July 31 marks the official launch of Ghana&#8217;s Affirmative Action Act. One year ago &#8211; on July 30, 2024 &#8211; Ghana&#8217;s Parliament made history by passing this groundbreaking piece of legislation, taking a critical step toward building a more just, equitable and inclusive society.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"63\">The Affirmative Action Act is both a victory for women and a national milestone in the country&#8217;s democratic development. It addresses the structural and cultural inequalities that have long hindered women&#8217;s access to leadership&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507300216.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 31 marks the official launch of Ghana&#8217;s Affirmative Action Act. One year ago &#8211; on July 30, 2024 &#8211; Ghana&#8217;s Parliament made history by passing this groundbreaking piece of legislation, taking a critical step toward building a more just, equitable and inclusive society. The Affirmative Action Act is both a victory for women and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":203642,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00671030:c46949d771fc9051e9868ac19192ad0b:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[6991,6394,20469,258,256,8082,7774,5996,6029,4509,8226,257,6884,254,5165,6100],"class_list":["post-203641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-act","tag-action","tag-affirmative","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-begins","tag-crucial","tag-equity","tag-gender","tag-ghana-news","tag-ghanas","tag-news","tag-real","tag-south-africa-today","tag-step","tag-work"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00671030:c46949d771fc9051e9868ac19192ad0b:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}