Opinion: Up you women, you can achieve what you will!

I read with profound interest and fervid admiration the piece published in the Daily Graphic of Wednesday, 11th March, 2015 with the caption With women, we flatter to deceive written by Elizabeth Ohene, a woman that has marvelled this country with the heights she had risen to. 

My understanding of the piece is that our setting of the world is designed in such a way that a woman rising to a position of repute is treated as one of the rarities and oddities of life. 

The piece stroke a chord within me because of all the explanations given to hardwork and diligence of women who brave all odds to “make a dent” in the universe in our part of the world, adultery and favour from pleasure of flesh is the most used.

In the early nineties, we saw how a woman who fought hard for the liberation of Mandela and  an end to  the ignoble Apartheid system, Winnie Madikizela Mandela, was vilified and accused