Happy International Women’s Day 2025!
Today, we celebrate the strength, resilience, and achievements of women everywhere. You are powerful. You are capable. You are unstoppable.
DWM wishes to congratulate all women across the globe especially Ghanaian women on this international women’s day March 8th 2025.
The timely and important campaign theme for this year celebration is “Accelerate Action for Gender Equality. It is worth noting that the United Nations Global Gender Gap Report and the World Economic Forum stated in their 2024 report that at the rate we are currently going, we will achieve gender equality in the year 2158, which is 133 years from now. This means that women’s progress and development will take until 2158, which is roughly five generations from now to reach full gender parity.
Women have made significant progress but it has been at a steady pace. DWM believes that with the passage of the Affirmative Action Act 2024, and strategic interventions of various stakeholders, our progress will be hastened. The Act, which aims to promote gender equality, and women empowerment, by addressing the systemic barriers that have hindered women in our Ghanaian society, will catapult women’s development.
DWM urges individuals, organisations, and all women, with this year’s theme, to take concrete steps in our daily lives, to positively influence women’s advancement.
DWM encourages all to call out stereotypes, challenge discrimination, question bias, as part of accelerating action towards equity and equality.
Our organisation stands in solidarity with all groups, large-scale bodies, and philanthropic entities working tirelessly to support and advance women and girls.
We celebrate impactful individuals and organisations across the globe to deliver many effective strategies, provide resources and activities that continue to help accelerate action towards gender equity in many areas.
DWM will continue to advocate for women’s development, to see a world free of bias, stereotypes, and discrimination, to a world that is diverse, equitable and inclusive. Let us all add our voices, as part of a global collective effort towards achieving gender parity.
Let us continue to uplift each other, break barriers, and create a world where every woman and girl can thrive. Whether in leadership, education, business, or the home, your voice matters, and your dreams are valid.
“Here is to strong women, May we know them, may we be them, and May we raise them.”
Happy international Women’s day
Ayekoo to all women
God bless you all
Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings Dr. (Mrs)