The WomanStats Project Database

Advancing an Empirical Research Agenda

Bibliographic Data

ID3917537
AuthorsMary Caprioli (University of Minnesota, Duluth, corresponding author), Valerie M Hudson (0000-0003-4330-6571, Brigham Young University), Rose Mcdermott (0000-0002-0920-1541, Department of Political Science, University of California, Santa Barbara), Bonnie Ballif-Spanvill (Brigham Young University), Chad F Emmett (0000-0003-3897-1964, Brigham Young University), Matthew Stearmer, S Matthew Stearmer (Brigham Young University)
Year2009
Volume46
Issue6
Pages839-851
Publication date2009-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Peace Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-3433 • E-ISSN: 1460-3578
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0022343309342947
OpenAlexW2067923395
LanguageEN
Citations received26
References cited15

This article describes the WomanStats Project Database - a multidisciplinary creation of a central repository for cross-national data and information on women available for use by academics, policy-makers, journalists, and all others. WomanStats is freely accessible online, thus facilitating worldwide scholarship on issues with gendered aspects. WomanStats contains over 260 variables for 174 countries and their attendant subnational divisions (where such information is available) and currently contains over 68,000 individual data points. WomanStats provides nuanced data on the situation and status of women internationally and in so doing facilitates the current trend to disaggregate analyses. This article introduces the dataset, which is now publicly available, describes its creation, discusses its utility, and uses measures of association and mapping to draw attention to theoretically interesting patterns concerning the various dimensions of women's inequality that are worthy of further exploration. Two of nine variables clusters are introduced - women's physical security and son preference/sex ratio. The authors confirm the multidimensionality of women's status and show that the impact of democracy and state wealth vary based on the type of violence against women. Overall, the authors find a high level of violence against women worldwide

Database · Democracy · Economics · Environmental health · Inequality · Multidisciplinary approach · Poison control · Political science · Politics · Preference · Public relations · Scholarship · Computer Science · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Human Factors and Ergonomics · Law · Medicine

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