Enduring Traditions and Emerging Shifts: Exploring Gender Roles in Ghanaian Marriages Amidst Modernization
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract This study examines the persistence and transformation of traditional gender roles in Ghanaian marriages amidst modernization, globalization, and shifting societal norms. Using qualitative data from twenty-eight in-depth interviews across rural and urban Ghana, it investigates how practices such as bride price, puberty rites, and familial expectations sustain traditional roles despite exposure to education, economic shifts, and global influences. Guided by Sylvia Walby’s patriarchal theory and Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of habitus, the findings reveal that male dominance remains deeply embedded, reinforced by economic dependence, religious ideologies, and early socialization. Women’s caregiving roles are seen as biologically and divinely inherent, maintaining traditional norms. However, limited changes are emerging in urban settings and among younger, educated men who occasionally share domestic responsibilities. This research highlights the resilience and adaptability of gender roles in Ghana, offering insights for culturally sensitive policies that promote gender equity while respecting cultural identity.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.008 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".