Tema, March 8, GNA - The unco-operative behaviour of some women in the homes and workplaces partly affect their socio-economic development and there is the need to initiate pragmatic measures to reverse the trend.

This was the opinion of some female workers and market women in an interview with GNA on this year's International Women's Day, which was observed under the theme "Women and HIV/AIDS", in Tema on Monday. Mrs Rose Amani, a senior staff of Tema Development Corporation, observed that improper planning by female workers contributed to their lagging behind their male counterparts at workplaces.

She, therefore, advised women to plan their domestic activities properly in order not to conflict with their official work, to enable them to efficiently compete with their male counterparts for promotions. Mrs Rose Amani noted that women lacked time management and were often late to work and appealed to them to stop all tendencies that negatively affected productivity.

Mrs Akosua Asabea Mensah, a trader in Tema, said the uncompromising conduct of some women at times provoked their husbands, citing that some of them failed to attend to their children and husbands before going to work.

Mrs Theresah Fosuah, also a trader in the city, accused some husbands of not contributing much to the upkeep of their homes. He also noted that some wives did not report the violent behaviour of their husbands to the police because the women did not want to wash their dirty linen in public.

Mrs Yaa Attipoe, a trader in Tema, urged women to report inhuman treatment by their husbands to the security agencies rather than to settle such cases at home.

Mrs Ayele Odai appealed to the government to provide women with funds to enable them to undertake economic activities thereby making them financially independent.