Mahama Appoints Only 7 Women to Cabinet - One for Each Day of the Week

President John Dramani Mahama’s 42 ministerial appointments included seven women, a figure Ghanaish understands was selected to align national gender representation with the calendar week. The arrangement allows one woman to symbolically represent each day, ensuring that Monday through Sunday can all point to progress.

The appointments were defended as part of a lean government, though the arithmetic suggests the leanest portion of the cabinet may be the women’s share. Under the weekday model, each female minister receives 24 hours of symbolic representation before the remaining six days return to business as usual.

Government may still appoint more women elsewhere, but the cabinet number has already achieved a clean mnemonic structure. Citizens can now remember the gender balance without a spreadsheet: seven women, seven days, and one country still treating inclusion as something that must fit neatly into a schedule.

This is satire. The source story is real; the conclusions have been faithfully misinterpreted.