The NCGW was established in an effort by Kwame Nkrumah's government to centralize women's groups in Ghana.
Hannah Kudjoe and Evelyn Amarteifio, leaders of the League and the Federation respectively, both resisted the proposal.
He appointed Tawia Adamafio, General Secretary of the CPP, to oversee the amalgamation of the League and the Federation into a single CPP-controlled body.
New formal structures were introduced, sidelining Kudjoe and Amarteifio, and leadership positions were offered to women MPs and wives of party activists.
[4] After the 1966 Ghanaian coup d'état ended Nkrumah's regime, the NCGW was disbanded.