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WomanStats Project
The WomanStats Project is a donor-funded research and database project housed at Brigham Young University that "seeks to collect detailed statistical data on the status of women around the world, and to connect that data with data on the security of states."〔D'Anieri, Paul J. ''International Politics: Power and Purpose in Global Affairs.'' Wadsworth Publishing (2009), 104.〕 The WomanStats Database has the most comprehensive compilation of information on the status of women in the world.〔"Facts & Statistics on Women," Singapore Council of Women's Organisations, http://www.scwo.org.sg/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=24&Itemid=35.〕 Coders comb the extant literature and conduct expert interviews to find qualitative and quantitative information on over 300 indicators of women's status in 174 countries with populations of at least 200,000. Access to the online database is free.〔Valerie Hudson, "Harvard Kennedy School - The WomanStats Database: A Resource for Researchers, Students, Advocates, and Policymakers, Valerie Hudson, Professor of Political Science" (presented at the WomanStats Database: A Resource for Researchers, Students, Advocates, and Policymakers, WAPP Cason Seminar Room, Harvard, March 3, 2011), http://www.hks.harvard.edu/news-events/events-calendar/the-womanstats-database-a-resource-for-researchers,-students,-advocates,-and-policymakers,-valerie-hudson,-professor-of-poli/(year)/2011/(month)/3〕
== History and structure ==
WomanStats began as an outgrowth of a paper Dr. Valerie M. Hudson (of the Brigham Young University Political Science department) and one of her graduate students, Andrea den Boer, published in International Security on the association between national security and the abnormal sex ratio in Asia. After the success and influence of their first article, (later added as one of their top twenty national security articles of that journal of all time), Hudson and den Boer did further research on the connection between the status of women and national security, but found that there was no single database that covered the range of topics that they needed for their research. Consequently, they began compiling information on variables regarding the status of women around the world.〔Felicia R. Lee, (Engineering More Sons Than Daughters: Will It Tip the Scales Toward War? ), ''The New York Times'', 2004〕
The database was officially formed in 2001 and grew exponentially as it later added more variables. The Project went live on the Internet in July 2007. The principal investigators are: Valerie M. Hudson (International Relations), Bonnie Ballif-Spanvill (Psychology, emeritus), and Chad F. Emmett (Geography) all from Brigham Young University, Mary Caprioli from the University of Minnesota, Duluth (International Relations), Rose McDermott from Brown University (International Relations), Andrea Den Boer from the University of Kent at Canterbury in the United Kingdom (International Relations) and S. Matthew Stearmer from the Ohio State University (Sociology; doctoral student).
Approximately a dozen undergraduate and graduate students at Brigham Young University and Texas A&M University work at any one time as coders for the project. The coders take the raw quantitative and qualitative data collected in government reports, news articles, research papers, etc. and sort the applicable information on women into categories. They may also implement scales developed by the principal investigators, or that they (the students) themselves have developed.〔(WomanStats Project )〕
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