Women's Organizations and Empowerment Data, 1980-2023

FEMPOWER provides information on women's organizations from 1980 to 2023. It includes details on names, founding years, member countries, goals, and ideological fragmentation. The dataset was created by Olga Lavrinenko with funding from the National Science Center, Poland.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in ideological fragmentation and organization goals over the 43-year time span.
• Map the international reach and headquarters location of organizations to study global networks.
• Study the relationship between organization size, founding/dissolution years, and member countries.
• Examine local-global linkages by disaggregating data by countries and years.

Strengths

• Data spans a 43-year period from 1980 to 2023.
• Includes multiple specific attributes per organization, such as goals, ideological fragmentation, and size.
• Publicly available under a CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication license.

Limitations

• Unknown row count and column structure limits assessment of statistical power.
• Sample data and file formats are unspecified, complicating preliminary analysis.
• Potential geographic or ideological bias may exist based on data collection methodology.

Provenance

Source

Harvard Dataverse, authored by Olga Lavrinenko.

Collection Method

Funded by the National Science Center, Poland (grant UMO-2021/40/C/HS6/00150).

Time Range

1980 to 2023.

Freshness

Last updated in January 2026.

Geography

Global, with data disaggregated by member countries.