WPS Resource Center
A tool for academics and practitioners interested in gender and conflict.
WPS Index 2025/26
Progress for women’s rights and wellbeing has stalled globally, according to the 2025/26 Women, Peace and Security (WPS) Index. WPS Index scores reveal that global progress on women’s status has largely stagnated since tracking began in 2017, with declines in certain regions. “As wars and conflicts reach a historic peak, progress on women’s status nears…
WPS Index 2021/22
The global advance of women’s status has slowed and disparities have widened across countries, according to the third edition of the Women, Peace and Security Index (WPS Index) released today at the United Nations. The WPS Index, published by Georgetown University’s Institute for Women, Peace and Security (GIWPS) and the PRIO Centre on Gender, Peace…
Responding to Rising Intimate Partner Violence Amid COVID-19
The Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security (GIWPS) and New Perimeter, an affiliate of DLA Piper, collaborated on this report about worsening rates of intimate partner violence (IPV) during the COVID-19 pandemic. The report provides a rapid review of published and gray literature and highlights a number of interventions that are both innovative and…
Views on Women’s Inclusion, Justice and Security in the United States
In August 2020, GIWPS commissioned YouGov and PerryUndem to conduct a nationally representative survey exploring American views on women’s status and opportunities and the state of gender equality in the United States. Across themes such as women’s leadership, economic opportunities, and safety, we find that women and people of color are much more likely to…
The Best and Worst States for Women: The US Women, Peace and Security Index 2020
The US WPS Index offers the most comprehensive measurement of women’s rights and opportunities across 50 states and the District of Columbia. It goes beyond women’s inclusion in the economy and politics to capture key aspects of justice and legal protections, as well as women’s security against violence in their homes and in their communities.
Beijing+25: Accelerating Progress for Women and Girls
Beijing+25: Accelerating Progress for Women and Girls is a roadmap to advance global gender equality authored by the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace, and Security (GIWPS), with support from The Rockefeller Foundation and in collaboration with Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton. Marking the 25th anniversary of the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women, which took…
What Does the Status of Women Reveal about a Nation’s Pandemic Preparedness and Response?
This research note co-authored by the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security and the PRIO Centre for Gender, Peace and Security investigates the relationship between women’s wellbeing and risk factors associated with an overwhelming COVID-19 outbreak. Are nations that perpetuate injustice, exclusion, and insecurity for women less prepared to handle an epidemic outbreak, like…
COVID-19 and the Informal Sector
Approximately five months into the global COVID-19 crisis, the short- and long-term damage to national economies—especially in the developing world—continues to be felt disproportionately by poor women. Initial analysis of data from countries including Brazil, India, Russia, and Kenya suggests women workers are particularly vulnerable to the current economic crisis because national lockdowns have brought…
Justice for Women Amidst COVID-19
This report documents major challenges to women’s access to justice in light of the COVID-19 pandemic and puts forth recommendations to accelerate action and push back against threats to progress. Authored by GIWPS Managing Director Dr. Jeni Klugman, the report is jointly published by UN Women, IDLO, UNDP, UNODC, World Bank, and The Pathfinders for…
How are the Domains of Women’s Inclusion, Justice, and Security Associated with Maternal and Infant Mortality Across Countries?
In SSM – Population Health, GIWPS’ Jeni Klugman and Jennifer Parsons collaborate with UCSD researchers to examine how women’s autonomy and empowerment in their homes, communities, and societies at large have been shown, through many direct and indirect pathways, to be associated with maternal and infant health. A novel global measure—the Women, Peace, and Security…
