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Women hold up half the sky. -           Chinese Proverb This proverb goes to tell how important women are in the development of the world, and this write up is an attempt to look at the extent to which deeply entrenched pronatalist thinking robs us of the potential of a large number of women; potential that would have served to develop humans and economies. Pronatalism is an attitude or policy that is pro-birth, that encourages reproduction and exalts the role of parenthood above a number of things, thus making being a parent a measure of value, especially for women. What I’d like to make clear before moving on is that this does not mean that a non-pronatalist society is against reproduction and parenthood, but that they do not see those as markers of success, wealth, or value, of humans. Coming home to Ghana, women carry the weight of a pronatalist-minded society and have been suffering under it for years, bringing alo...

Last Night, I blogged about suicide as a part of starting this #StateOfMyMind campaign on social media. Today, I want to speak up here for women, about Self Esteem and how much the state of our minds shapes it. I will be using a borrowed theory to better address it, and as I love to do, bring it to life with a scenario or two. I’d also like to give credit to one of my favorite lecturers, Dr. Mumuni Abu or more fondly known as Sheik, for setting my thinking down this path. It was he who presented a scenario in class one day, using the theory of Double Jeopardy (a variation of it) to explain. It was a discussion on risky sexual behavior and the chain effects or causal chain of a dangerous state of mind.  Double Jeopardy is a behavioral theory or law initially used more in predicting marketing behavior, and also something that came up in the practice of criminal law as well (Double Jeopardy is a protection for an accused to ensure that the person is not tried more than ...