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Brian Ahanotu; Wonder Agbemavi; Adjoa Yenyi; Joshua Amo-Adjei – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2025
Ghanaian adolescents face considerable sexual and reproductive health challenges that can disrupt human capital formation. However, a positive and healthy transition from adolescence to adulthood can be achieved by increasing access to sexual and reproductive health information, education, and services. This paper documents emerging findings from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Well Being, School Districts, Rape
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Proulx, Geneviève M.; Martinez, Andrea – Journal of Applied Research on Children, 2013
Despite the established relationship between girls' education and several social development outcomes, gender disparities in education remain particularly concerning. Among the many obstacles that still hinder girls' access to quality education, sexual violence against girls in schools (SVAGS) is one of the most worrying but also one that has…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sexual Abuse, Rape, Violence
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Oduro, Georgina Yaa – Comparative Education, 2012
Youth-sensitive policies are gradually gaining recognition in Africa. The release of the recent publication "Children in Ghana" by the Ministry of Women and Children's Affairs (MOWAC) and UNICEF-Ghana attests to the value the country places on young people's perspectives. Guided by Richardson's conceptual framework on sexual citizenship,…
Descriptors: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Sex Education, Citizenship, Females
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Boakye, Kofi E. – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2009
This study explores the usefulness of the feminist theory in explaining attitudes toward rape and victims of rape in Ghana. The feminist theory of rape posits, inter alia, that patriarchy and gender inequality are major factors in the aetiology of rape and attitudes toward rape and that underlying patriarchy and gender inequality are gender…
Descriptors: Feminism, Rape, Sex Stereotypes, Misconceptions