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Item Factors that Influence Promotion of University of Ghana Lecturers : A Survival Analysis Approach(University Of Ghana, 2017-07) Yeboah, E.K.Survival analysis has been invaluable in studies involving time to an event. The methods encompassing the idea of Survival Analysis appears to be commended by most researchers particularly in the medicinal, engineering, agricultural and actuarial fields. This paper applied survival methods to promotion data of lecturers in the University of Ghana. The main objective was to identify the factors prominent in facilitating an early promotion of University of Ghana lecturers. The proportionality assumptions were assessed and some model diagnostics were made with some graphical presentations. The proportionality assumption was satisfied and the models were compared by their AIC values. The Weibull Proportional Hazard model recorded the lowest AIC value making it a better model to fit the data set. The average survival time for promotion is 78.847 months with a standard deviation of 3.72 and a 95% CI [71.497, 86.198]. This means that it take an average of 6.57 years for a lecturer to earn their first promotion. This study considers the variables age, number of UG committee membership, number of international conferences attended, number of technical reports written, number of working papers, number of books published, qualification before entry and origin of Master’s certificate as significant at 5% significance level, in influencing the time until a lecturer gets promoted at the University of Ghana. The variables, number of children, marital status, gender, national committee membership, and college of affiliation were not significant at 5% significance level. Evidently, young lecturers are more likely to be promoted as compared to aged lecturers. But the higher the number of UG committee membership, International conferences attended, books published and technical reports written, the more likely it is to get a promotion.Item The Use Of Gender Quota System In Promoting Women’s Political Representation In Rwanda: Lessons For Ghana(University Of Ghana, 2022-11) Yeboah, E.K.Today, there are more women representatives in the Rwandan legislature than in many democracies globally. This achievement can be attributed to the adoption of a gender quota system and explicit affirmative action interventions in political institutions. The adoption of these gender quotas has caused many women in Parliament to support the enactment of laws and to make decisions that have gone a long way to empower women and address some issues that once affected women in Rwanda. On the other hand, Ghana which attained independence more than six decades ago and is a role model for democracy in Africa still struggles today to have more women representation in the national legislature and other public offices. This study discusses the lessons Ghana can learn from the Rwandan experience to adopt a gender quota strategy that encourages women’s representation in Parliament and other public offices. Through the theoretical lens of Critical Mass as a means of analysing the effectiveness of women who occupy top political and corporate positions such as national parliaments, the study adopted the qualitative research design to understand the use of the gender quota system in promoting women’s political representation and well-being in Rwanda and what lessons Ghana can draw from it. The research findings revealed that while gender quotas have been successfully implemented in Eastern and Southern Africa, West African countries including Ghana have not structured the implementation of gender quotas, particularly because of the dominance of the First past the post electoral system in West African countries. The study, therefore recommends that Ghana can maintain its First Past The Post electoral system and still pass gender quota laws, specifically, the legislative quotas with strong enforcement measures.