One Suggestion For HAMADE'A

Look at the following statements carefully and try to identify their differences:
Minister of Foreign Affairs Weizero Abrehet Hadgu
Minister of Education Hiwet Debessay
Minister of Justice Ato Habtom Negsai
Minister of Energy and Mines Ato Salih Abubeker

Do u find out?

These are 4 ministers- two men two women. One man and one women from the ministers listed above are single while the others are married. It is simple to identify Hiwet is single by looking at the prefix before her name. But for the men, it is very difficult to tell which of them is single. So what we are saying is that the title system for women tells their marital status, but not for men. Hummm! It doesn’t look fair, especially given how socially sensitive it is for women to be single in our culture. The solution is not with creating another prefix for men, but creating new and uniform title for women.
In our traditional title system, a married woman is prefixed with weizero while a single woman with weizerit. This has an unintended disadvantage for modern women. It is socially not appealing to call a 50 year old women weizerit. Of course getting married is an individual choice, and if one decided to be single, it shouldn’t be concern to society. But the fact of the matter is that in our society, being single is not perceived as a result of individual choice. It is perceived as result of social failure. It becomes a concern then, especially when the individual holds public office, like minister or general directors. As these positions expose them to public media and conferences, calling them weizerit is giving out unnecessary private information. It is in realization of these concerns that the Ministry of Information adopted their own way of calling- they simply drop the prefix and call them as” Minister of Education Hiwet Debessay”. But it is not enough fix. People have quickly realized why they do so. So the absence of the prefix is equivalent to weizerit!
The real solution is to come up with a uniform prefix that doesn’t distinguish marital status which will replaces the exiting prefixes of weizero and weizerit. I don’t see any objection for such move. All it needs is for HAMADE’A to come with such proposal and initiate it. So, if any of you are associated with the organization, forward them my suggestion.