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Data from 1990 and 2000 Census of Population and Housing, the Economic Census, and the American Community Survey. See especially US Census Bureau publications containing information on gender and news releases about women. For more complete access to Census data, see the "Census Information" box at left.
Population topics include aging, disability, education, gender, employment, origins and languages, poverty, race and ethnicity, relationships, transportation and veterans. Housing information includes physical and financial characteristics. The Economic Census includes statistics on business and industry, foreign trade and government.
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.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention publication covering data on women and mortality, preventive care, health insurance coverage, health risk factors, and health status.
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.
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.
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.
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