Women's & Gender Studies

Publication of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

A compilation of facts created for Women’s History Month, March 2011. Provides fast-fact statistics about women, including population, motherhood, earnings, education, businesses, voting, jobs, military, marriage, and sports.

Data on women grouped into five areas of interest: People, Families & Income; Education; Employment; Health; and Crime & Violence. PDF.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention publication covering data on women and mortality, preventive care, health insurance coverage, health risk factors, and health status.

Statistics and indicators on women and men

Data compiled by five universities on the status of women in the world. Seeks to shed light on "the linkage between the situation of women and the security of nation-states." Investigators "comb the extant literature and conduct expert interviews to find qualitative and quantitative information on over 310 indicators of women's status in 174 countries."

Information on gender at the country level, compiled from national statistics agencies, United Nations databases, and World Bank-conducted or -funded surveys.

See the "Gender Statistics" heading.

Examines the variation in economic opportunities for women around the world, using data compiled by the Economist Intelligence Unit.

The Gender Equity Index "is based on information available that can be compared internationally, and it makes it possible to classify countries and rank them in accordance with a selection of gender inequity indicators in three dimensions, education, economic participation and empowerment." A publication of Social Watch, an international network of citizens’ organizations working "to ensure an equitable distribution of wealth and the realization of human rights."

A "new composite measure of gender equality, based on the OECD’s Gender, Institutions and Development Database." The SIGI focuses on the root causes of gender inequalities.

Gender statistics about violence against women (the U.S. is not included)

The WomanStats Project began in 2001 with the aim of investigating the link between the security and behavior of states and the situation and security of the women within them.

The WPS Index is published by the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security and the PRIO Centre on Gender, Peace and Security with support from the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.