The Role of Religion in Gender Inequality in Ghana: The Christian Perspective
Samuel Kwasi Frimpong 
Issue: Vol.8 No.9 September 2022 Issue Article 2 pp.269-278
DOI : https://doi.org/10.38159/erats.2022892 | Published online 7th October 2022.
© 2022 The Author(s). This is an open access article under the CCBY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
This article seeks to discuss how religion affects gender inequality in Ghana. Religious teachings and beliefs play an important role in either promoting or hindering gender equality. Defining ‘‘religion’’ with a common definition has become a major enterprise for theologians. From the biblical perspective, the impact of females is rarely felt, due to the socio-cultural injunctions purported to have come from the Graeco-Roman world. The subjugation of women is still common in all spheres of life including Ghana and religion has a role to play in this phenomenon. Using the works of various scholars, this article explored the extent of the influence of religion on gender inequality from the Christian perspective. It was observed that despite its influence on social development, Religion has not promoted the needed gender equality in Ghana. The church and society, therefore, need to confront the issue of gender inequality and sanction women’s equality with their male counterparts. This study adds to the existing literature on the need to break gender inequality in all spheres of life in this 21st century.
Keywords: Religion, Culture, Patriarchy, Gender Inequality.
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Samuel Kwasi Frimpong is an Ordained Minister of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana, with a BTH(Bachelor of Theology) from the Trinity Theological Seminary, Legon-Accra, Ghana. He also holds an MPhil in Religious Studies from the Department of Religious Studies, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi – Ghana. He is currently a PhD Candidate in the same institution. His research interests center on Gender Equality in the Church and Society.
Frimpong S.K. “The Role of Religion in Gender Inequality in Ghana: The Christian Perspective,” E-Journal of Religious and Theological Studies, 8 no.9 (2022): 269-278. https://doi.org/10.38159/erats.2022892
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