ABSTRACT
This chapter examines one aspect of trade union internal democracy: gender democracy and its implication for interest representation within workplace democracy. It utilizes information from three African Workers Participation Development Programme (APADEP) research efforts in Ghana. Job segregation by gender, according to Briskin and McDermott, is critical to an expanded understanding of the relationship between women and unions and therefore union gender democracy: One other gender dimension of labour force participation in Ghana is the gender wage gap. The African Labour Research Network (ALRN) report on the gender impact of labour market liberalisation in Ghana explained how this gender wage gap has increased during the 1990s. Both the questionnaire survey and trend study reports questioned the ability of the Women's Desk to implement the contents of the Ghana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) gender policy or to further transform gender discriminatory practices within the GTUC and its affiliates through such activities.
