Join Gretchen Bauer, UD Professor of Political Science & International Relations, for the third installment of the 2021 Fulbright Lecture Series. During the 19th and 20th centuries some women were at the center, if not in the lead, of struggles against the imposition of colonial rule and for political independence in Gold Coast/Ghana. Since the transition to democracy, Ghana has moved from center to bottom in terms of women’s representation in parliament, though women’s presence in cabinets has been higher. This lecture focuses on the Fourth Republic and some factors working against women’s election to parliament (cost of politics, politics of insult, weakness of parliament, among others), and some factors potentially working for women’s selection to cabinet.