The functions of the Council are:-

(a) to advise the Government generally on all matters relating to full integration of women in national development at all levels;

(b) to serve as the official national body for co-operating and liaising with national and international organisations on matters relating to the status of women;

(c) to examine and evaluate the contribution of women in the economic, social and cultural fields, and to advise government as to the specific areas where participation by women may be strengthened or initiated;

(d) to study the effect of customary beliefs, prejudices and practices on advancement of women in the education, political and economic fields, and to report to Government from time to time;

(e) to devise a programme for the establishment of machinery and procedures to make possible the continuous review and evaluation of women's integration in the total development effort at local, regional and national levels;

(f) to study plans and proposals for the establishment of large-scale non-formal education and training for the purpose of raising living standards in the rural and urban communities and eradicating illiteracy;

(g) to perform such other functions as the Government may assign to the Council, or as are incidental or conducive to the exercise by the Council of all or any of the foregoing functions.