Gladys Asmah
Hon Gladys Asmah ( born October 16, 1939 in Cape Coast, Central Region, Ghana ) is a politician from Ghana. Since January 2005 she has been acting Minister of Fisheries under President John Agyekum Kufuor. From 2001 to January 2005, she was the first incumbent of the newly established Ministry of affairs of women and children. Gladys Asmah is a member of the politically well-known in Ghana Danquah - Busia family. Since 1979 she has been politically active in Ghana.
Education and Early Years
First Asmah attended Wesley Girl High School and later the Ghana National College in Cape Coast. After your graduation Asmah worked for a short time at the Ghana Railway Corporation, and later became head of department for quality control and laboratory Pioneer Tobacco Company PTC.
In 1963, Asmah Ghana left and went to Britain. Here she attended both the Hendson University of Technology ( Hendon College of Technology ) and the Leeds University of Economics (College of Economics). Asmah made the final in 1966 in Home Economics ( Economics House ) as a member of the Institute Management Associations of London.
Immediately after graduating, she worked for the British Council as an Assistant Management Association in London. Already in London also discovered the first interest in fashion and learned next to the craft and the organizational structure of the fashion industry know.
Asmah came back to Ghana and formed a company that merged in the legal form of a Limited Liability Company in 1975. In Takoradi Takoradi Asmah worked in the Neighborhood Centre, where it forms girls and young women around.
Political career
Asmah 1981 was a member of the committee for minority parties (Committee of Minority Parties ). This committee should bring together the smaller parties to form a unit that could compete successfully in the forthcoming elections in 1983 against the ruling party PNP. In the committee she was the only woman. However, at the party's founding, it was not because of the military coup of Jerry Rawlings in December 1981.
After Ghana in 1992 returned to a democratic form of government, Asmah was a candidate in the constituency Takoradi to a parliamentary seat. Only in 1996 she won the constituency and moved as a representative for the population in Takoradi Ghana in parliament. To date, Gladys Asmah Member of Parliament for the New Patriotic Party (NPP ) has remained. Now your third term does not expire until 2008 election year.
Early as 1996 Asmah first woman as Deputy Opposition Leader ( Deputy Minority Leader ) in Parliament. After the elections in December 2000, she was confirmed in office and in 2001 was Asmah Minister of the newly established Cabinet Ministry of Women and Children. In January 2005, she was Minister of Fisheries, as the successor Asmahs in the Ministry of Women Hajia Alima Mahama was appointed. For the first time under Gladys Asmah reached the Ministry of Fisheries, the status as a Cabinet Ministry. The number represented in the cabinet ministries in Ghana is constitutionally limited to 19.
Family
Gladys Asmah is the widow of John Asmah, who died on 9 February 2003 at the age of 68 years. They have two children together.
Commitment
Asmah is Chairman of the Board of the Company Takoradi Women Training Ahantaman Rural Bank, Deputy Vice -President of the Association of Ghana Industries and Chairman of the Regional Committee of Women in Development ( Women in Development ).
She is also a board member of the Fijai Secondary School and a member of the Western Regional Consultative Council as well as in their party, the New Patriotic Party member of the local group for issues of women.
With the aim to reduce poverty especially of women in Ghana, she became the Minister for Affairs of Women and Children founder of the Women Development Fund ( WDF ).
Bibliography
- Population policy in Africa - claim and reality. In: Cairo 5 opportunities and obstacles for a successful population policy. Konrad Adenauer Stiftung ( ed.) 1999.