[2] Established by Evelyn Amarteifio in 1953, it was dissolved in 1960 as Kwame Nkrumah pursued government control of women's organizations in Ghana.
[2] To improve the situation of women, the federation campaigned for recognition of customary marriages by the colonial government.
To keep the NFGCW politically non-partisan, Amarteifio tried to resist CPP pressure to create a single government-controlled nationalist women's group.
With funding from Nkrumah's government, the organization hosted a Conference of the Women of Africa and African Descent at University College in Accra in July 1960.
The conference was publicized internationally, with support from St. Clair Drake, Dorothy Pizer, Era Bell Thompson, Shirley Graham Du Bois.