Media personality Nana Aba Anamoah has urged young women to resist succumbing to sexual advances from men in the workplace in exchange for job opportunities or career advancement.
During an interview on 3Music TV, she underscored the importance of women maintaining their dignity and self-respect, emphasizing that compromising oneself in such situations only leads to exploitation and undermines personal integrity.
“Some men think that is how they can exhibit power…If you are a young girl caught up in that situation, I’ll say to you, do not have sex with a man,” Anamoah advised, highlighting the gravity of compromising one’s self-esteem for professional gains.
While she hasn’t personally encountered such ultimatums in her career, Anamoah stressed the importance of young women not risking their integrity in exchange for opportunities.
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She also challenged the tendency to blame young women for such predicaments, asserting that the fault lies with those who exploit their positions of power to demand sexual favors for job opportunities.
“It is not their fault…There is an insane man who thinks that ‘this girl, even though she is competent, must get into her pants before she gets the job.’ So it is not the young woman’s fault,” she asserted.
Anamoah acknowledged the challenges young women may face in the demanding job markets but emphasized that compromising one’s principles for employment is never the solution.
“Exchanging sex for a job is not the way to go,” she concluded, urging women to uphold their dignity and pursue opportunities based on merit rather than coercion or exploitation.
