The goal of our paper is to identify areas of intergenerational change in the lives of Ghanaian women that have relevance for psychological indicators such as determinants of self-worth and sources of distress. Our **data** exploring social change in women comes from two distinct sources. Proverbs served as a source of information about "the traditional Ghanaian woman." Contemporary information was obtained from the results of the Everyday Lives Survey from the Pathways of Women's Empowerment Ghana project.