The WomanStats Project is a team of researchers dedicated to the continual expansion of the WomanStats Database, as well as the pursuit of research assessing the relationship between the security of women on the one hand, and the security, stability, and behavior of nation-states on the other.

The codebook and variable list provides in depth detail on all the variables in the database:

Part I. Multivariate Scales Produced from WomanStats Data
Note: Single variable scales can be found in the listings for that variable in Part II below.

A. Multivariate Scale #1 (Physical Security of Women)

B. Multivariate Scale #2 (Discrepancy Between National Law and Practice Concerning Women)

C. Multivariate Scale #3 (Inequity in Family Law/Practice Between Men and Women)

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Part II. WomanStats Data for Single Variables

A. Women’s Physical Security

         i. Health (See also Maternal and Infant Mortality and other health indicators for maternity in Section F)

                  a. Differential Access to Health Care Based on Gender (DACH)

                  b. Infibulation/FGM/Other Mutilations (INFIB)

                  c. Caloric Intake (CIWM)

                  d. Menarche Average Age of Onset (MAAO)

                  e. Issues with STDs (ISTD)

                  f. Issues with Married Women and STDs (IMSTD)

                  g. Mental Illness and Substance Abuse (MISA)

                  h. Potentially Harmful Beauty Practices (PHBP)

 

         ii.  Violence (See Section E.ii for Domestic Violence and Female Infanticide)

                  a. Rape and Sexual Assault (LRW)

                  b. Familial Sexual Assault: Marital Rape/Incest (LRCM)

                  c.  Suicide Rates of Women of Childbearing Age (15-44) (SUICIDE)

                  d. Murder/Attack Rates; Women of Childbearing Age (15-44) (MURDER)

                  e. Sex Trafficking of Females and Related Practices Such as Slavery and Barter of Women (TRAFF)

                  f. Labor/Domestic Servant Trafficking/Migration (LDS)

                  g. Unspecified Violence Against Women (UVAW)

B. Women’s Economic Security

         i. Employment Restrictions Based on Gender (ERBG)

         ii. Single mothers’ economic status (SMES)

         iii.  Mothers' Unpaid Labor Value (MULV)

         iv. Caring Unpaid Labor (CL)

         v. Breakout of daily labor hours (DLB)

         vi. Urban/rural concentration of women/patterns of migration (CWC)

C. Women’s Legal Security

         i. Citizenship Laws (CLCW)

         ii. Citizenship Laws Concerning Children (CLCC)

         iii. Land Ownership and Property Rights (LO)

         iv. Legal Barriers to Holding Office (LBHO laws)

         v. Voting Rights (VOTE)

D. Women’s Security in the Community

         i. Issues Regarding Prostitution (IRP)

         ii. Pornography (PRN)

         iii. Required Dress Codes for Women (RCDW)

         iv. Segregation of menstruating/postpartum women (SMPP)

         v. Intermingling of sexes in public (IIP)

         vi. Societal Engagement with Gender Issues (SEGI)

         vii. Gender Indices (GDI/GII/SIGI, etc.) (GDI)

         viii. Women and the Media (WAM)

E. Women’s Security in the Family

         i. Family Law/Practice

                  a. Marriage (MARR)

                  b.  Age of Marriage (AOM)

                  c. Widow Remarriage (WR)

                  d. Inheriting Wives (IW)

                  e. Access to Divorce (ATDW)

                  f. Access to Divorce Concerning Mothers (ADCM)

                  g. Custody of Children (CUST)

                  h. Inheritance as Wife (IAW)

                  i.  Inheritance as Daughter (IAD)

                  j. Double Standards of Marital Fidelity (DSFMF)

         ii. Violence in the Family

                  a. Domestic Violence (DV)

                  b. Female Infanticide/Sex-Selective Abortion (ISSA)

         iii. Family and Society

                  a. Attitudes towards Families (ATFPA)

                  b. Children Born to/Raised by Married Couples (CBMC)

c. Definitions of Manhood and Womanhood (DMW)

         iv.  Polygyny

                  a.  Polygyny (PW)

                  b. Polygyny concerning mothers (POLY)

F. Security for Maternity

         i. Care Received During Pregnancy/Labor/Post-Partum (CRPLB)

         ii. Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR)

         iii. Infant Mortality Rate (IM)

         iv. Mother’s Age at Birth of First Child (MABFC)

         v. Percentage of Pregnant Women with Anemia (PPWA)

         vi. Birth Rate (BR)

         vii. Government Intervention in Childbearing (GIC)

         viii. Forced Sterilization or Childbearing (FSCB)

         ix. Abortion (ABO)

         x. Social Acceptance of Breastfeeding (SAB)

G. Women’s Security Through Voice

         i. Holding Legal Office (LBHO, practice and data)

         ii. Government Positions (GP)

         iii. Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM) (GEM)

H. Security Through Community Investment in Women

         i. Literacy Rates (LR)

         ii. Women’s Access to Formal Education (AFE)

         iii. Area of Study Restrictions (ASR)

         iv. NGOs Focused on Women (NGOFW)

v. Sports, Recreational Activities, and Continuing Education (SRACE)

I. Women’s Security in the State

         i. Accession to CEDAW and Reservations (ATC)

         ii. Asylum for Women (AW)

         iii. Government/Subnational Group Exploitation of Women (GEW)

         iv. Exemption of women from combat/military service (EWCMS)

         v. Exemption of mothers from combat/military service (EMCMS)

         vi. Differential Treatment Under Law (DTCP)

         vii. Recent Changes in Status of Women (RISW)

         viii. Constitutional Law (CONST)