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Cooperatives are legal-entities whose members and their activities should be based on family philosophy and democracy. Therefore, these entities are important for the economic development in a country. In addition, the women cooperatives require that they have to improve their performance. This study attempts to analyze the performance of the Women Cooperatives that have been implementing good-corporate governance (GCG). It uses census data, with the population consisting of 624 women cooperatives in which their performances have been rated in 2012. The measurement of corporate governance variable is done through the aspects of organizational activities. In addition, the measurement of the performance of women’s cooperatives is viewed from the aspects of productivity. The analysis is done by means of regression analysis. The results showed that GCG affects the performance of women’s cooperatives. This indicates that the higher the GCG implementation, the higher the performance of women cooperatives. The accountability of the cooperative activities as well as the organizational aspects of productivity to members of cooperatives were done while the Annual Member Meeting (AMM).