Society’s limited view of a woman’s expression is specifically why they tag as ‘attacks’ or ‘harsh’, opinions of same on some issues they deem strongly prejudiced against women, a member of the Feminist group, PepperDem Ministries, Amazing Grace Danso has said.

Speaking to Ghanaweb on the sidelines of the National Dialogue on the Status of the Ghanaian woman, Miss Danso noted with concern, the fact that society, through actions and inactions have suppressed the woman’s full range of emotions such that they are usually unable to freely express themselves without being stereotyped.

According to her, women, just like the male species, are allowed to express their anger and displeasure in an unadulterated way, be passionate about it and not have to feel ‘tagged’ by society for doing same.

“We expect women to be all nice and sweet and always be on the milder side, we’ve robbed women of their full range of emotions when such things come out and women are allowed to get angry. The things we’ve talked about are things we are angry about. We are angry about domestic violence, we are angry about sexual abuse, we are angry about inequalities, hindering our access to certain powerful places and these are valid emotions”.

Miss Danso was emphatic about the position of the ‘PepperDem’ group. Though mostly tagged as ‘harsh’ and ‘unnecessarily defensive’, she maintained that the group’s vision was to confront the systems and the dents they think go against the rights and interests of women and girls in society.

She was in fact of the opinion that some persons who have in the past labelled them as ‘savage’ and ‘intolerant’ may have been guilty of the very subjects they were ‘firing’ about.

“I don’t think we are harsh, I just think we are very unadulterated about the way we tell our truth and we put it directly in your face, that’s what it’s meant to do but I think the reason people think it’s harsh is because people have a limited view of a woman’s expression”, she said.



“We are not harsh, we are just giving you the truth of the realities on the ground and the people who think we are harsh, it’s because a lot of times unfortunately they are guilty of some of the misogynistic things we talk about and so it feels like they are being attacked but we are here to confront the systems, the mindsets, the ideologies that are keeping one whole gender behind”, she continued.

The National Dialogue on the status of the Ghanaian woman was a programme held by Star Ghana Foundation in partnership with the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection.



It formed part of activities to mark the International Women’s Day which is celebrated worldwide on the 8th of March annually.

Themed, ”Balance for Better, Examining Progress and Prospects for gender equality in Ghana’, the program sought to among other things, create dialogue and generate pragmatic steps to promoting gender equality and promoting women empowerment in Ghana.