There have been many elements of
indiscrimination against some members of the societies
including, females and children. The male counterpart
have enjoyed and claimed superiority over the females for
long. In some communities the male have overshadowed
the female and trampled over the right of females as if they
are sub-human being. At the work place some male Chief
Executives Officers or Managers are claimed to have
sexually abused some female subordinate making them
become very vulnerable. In Ghana gender inequalities is
recognised as critical societal problem and discussed in
relation to education policies and programmes to be
gender responsive so as to ensure equity and equality
within all aspects of the institution’s practice. There are
four areas of concern claimed by T-TEL which include
“Gender Responsive, the use of gender responsive
Teaching and Learning Materials (TKMs), Academics,
Programming and Pedagogy”. With these, college
authorities are expected to include female student teacher
(ST) in every group or committee formed in the colleges.
This study was done at Basic schools in the KEEA
Municipality. The method that the researcher used for the
study was Quantitative. The instruments used for
collecting data for the research was questionnaires. The
population for the study were all the teachers in all the 105
Basic School in the Municipality. The researcher selected a
sample size of 200 respondents from the partnership
schools using quota and simple random techniques. The
research findings revealed that there are many areas
where the teachers in KEEA Municipal Assembly were
performing well. These include giving equal chance to all
to answer questions in class, using participatory methods
such as group, debate and role play to ensure equal
participation of males and females. However, there are
such as formation of gender club to discuss gender equity
and equality and help confident to challenge traditional
gender role in the society.
Keywords : Mainstreaming, Discrimination, Stereotyping, Gender Responsive, Perceptions, Women Empowerment, Stigmatization, Partnership, Distinction