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- 1 2 3 Tamara Winfrey Harris, "What American Women Can Learn from Ghanaian Feminists", Clutch, 28 September 2012.
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- ↑ Ghana Social Watch Coalition, "No Hope for the Poor", Social Watch, 2007.
- ↑ Manifesto (2004), p. 23: "Other elements of social development include food security, social security (such as pensions), housing and economic services such as transport infrastructure. In any case, a more comprehensive approach to social policy and social development must also include access to a minimum level of income for all citizens of working age and all families. In Ghana and elsewhere, the ability to earn an income is the defining feature of each individual. Those who are unable to do so find themselves at an enormous disadvantage and have some of the lowest status in society. As the majority of people in this situation are women, no comprehensive, progressive social programme can exclude the provision of minimum levels of income for all citizens and for women in particular."
- ↑ Denise M. Nepveux, "Reclaiming Agency, Ensuring Survival: Disabled Urban Ghanaian Women's Negotiations of Church and Family Belonging", Disability Studies Quarterly 26(4), 2006.
- ↑ "Women's Manifesto celebrates one year in Ghana", GhanaWeb, 4 September 2005.
- ↑ Rebecca Quaicoe-Duho, "Five years after ‘Women’s Manifesto’", Daily Graphic, 1 September 2009, p. 11, accessed at Pathways of Women's Empowerment on 27 October 2012.
- ↑ Emmanuel Akyeampong and Ama de-Graft Aikins, "Ghana at Fifty: reflections on independence and after", Transitions 98, 2008, accessed via Project Muse on 27 October 2012.