Ghana: Women with stretch marks disqualified from jobs

Ghana: Women with stretch marks disqualified from jobs

Women with stretch marks, bleached skin and surgery cuts applying for jobs in Ghana’s Immigration Services (GIS) have been left in the dumps after the government agency disqualified them from their ongoing recruitment process, BBC reports.

GIS spokesperson, Michael Amoako-Attah justified the move by saying the decision was made in consideration of  the safety and well-being of the women candidates.

“If you have bleached skin or surgical marks on your body during training exercises, you may incur some bleeding and that wouldn’t help or augur well for the safety of the applicant, because we have seen it before and as much as possible we should avoid re-occurrence,” says Attah.

Men with dreadlocks have also been locked out of the recruitment process which attracted 84,637 applications to fill only 500 posts.

This has hotly angered Ghanians who took their frustrations to social media accusing the agency of extortion for coercing them to pay 50 Ghanaian Cedi (Ksh.1100) in order to buy application forms, which earned the agency a whopping $880,000 an equivalent of Ksh.90 million.

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BBC reports that discriminating women on job employment is a budding norm in Ghana as this is not the first time the agency has locked out women based on their appearance.

Other security agencies, such as the armed forces, have disqualified women for having what they considered to be big breasts and buttocks. Some MPs in Ghana have urged disqualified applicants to take their complaints to court.

 

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