Around February 2025, my friend Linda, the founder of LinHeart Foundation, reached out to me with a special request. She had been away from the country for some time, and during her absence, an organization called 3D Circle, a Girls in Tech training program focused on robotics and STEM for young girls, approached her for a collaboration. They were planning a program for basic school girls that combined skills training, empowerment talks, and a sanitary pad distribution initia

I found myself thinking about something the Creator says about human beings, that He takes pleasure in us. And honestly, that thought wouldn’t leave me alone. It made me ask myself: What could be so interesting about humans that God would enjoy watching us? At first, the question felt strange. But then I looked around me. Look at the things we live with every day. Houses. Roads. Cars. Phones. Medicines. Technologies that didn’t exist a few decades ago. Systems that organize h

One of the most common questions people ask—quietly or aloud—is, “What is my purpose?" Yet an even more important question often comes first: “Do I really know who I am?” Many of us grow up moving quickly from one expectation to another—school, career, marriage, success—without ever pausing to understand the self that is meant to live out these roles. We are taught what  to do far more than we are taught who  we are. And so, purpose feels elusive, not because it is absent, b

Our last article opened a conversation on the definition of work —a subject that quietly threads through the fabric of every human life. Today, we would like to linger a little longer on this subject—a subject that quietly threads through the fabric of every human life. No one can escape it; whether we resist it, embrace it, or redefine it, work is always there, shaping who we are and how we live. But what, truly, is “work”? How has its meaning shifted across centuries and cu

Did you know that the words “sex” and “gender” have distinct meanings? And did you also know that many societal structures and...

Welcome to the GenderToday blog , a space born out of passion, purpose, and personal experience. My name is Marian Toju Acquah-Andoh...