International Center For

History

ICRW was founded in 1976 in response to concerns that international development interventions were benefiting men and women unequally - to the detriment of entire societies. At the time, women's roles and responsibilities, their needs and concerns, and their contributions and constraints were invisible to those who determined how countries spent funds to combat poverty, illiteracy and poor health. ICRW was established to make visible the invisible.

Specialties

The International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) is a global research institute with headquarters in Washington, D.C., and regional offices in Nairobi, Kenya, and New Delhi, India. ICRW is comprised of social scientists, economists, public health specialists and demographers, all of whom are experts in gender relations. We are thought leaders driven by a passion to alleviate poverty and rectify injustice in the world. And we believe that women and girls in developing countries - in collaboration with men and boys - are essential to the solutions. We know that when their quality of life improves, families are healthier and economies are stronger.