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Institute for Women’s Studies in the Arab World (Lebanese American University) The Lebanese American University founded the Institute for Women’s Studies in the Arab World (IWSAW) in 1973. The history of the Institute is closely linked to that of the first women’s college in the Middle East, the America Junior College for Women, which was established in 1924 by the Presbyterian Mission. The College, which educated Middle Eastern women for half a century, became coed in 1973. In order to honor the college’s unique heritage as the first educational institution for women in (...)

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Research Institute of Asian Women (RIAW) (University in Korea) The Research Institute of Asian Women (RIAW) was established as the first of its kind at Sookmyung Women’s University in Korea in September 1960. For almost four decades, the RIAW has explored and identified the issues of women’s condition. It has tried to draw on rich women intellectual resources and develope their potential to meet the continuing needs for outstanding women leadership in Korean society. The RIAW has devoted to : 1) the advancement of women’s status in Korea as well (...)

•	Women’s Studies Institute (Seoul Women’s University)

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Korean Women’s Institute (KWI) (Ewha Womans University) The Korean Women’s Institute (KWI) was founded on March 1, 1977 under the auspices of Ewha Womans University, as a professional research institute on women’s issues, dealing with a future society increasingly oriented to gender-equality. When Women’s Studies was unknown in Korea in the 1970s, it sought to implement research and programs from a new feminist (women-centered) perspective and has also contributed to the improvement of women’s status through research and educational programs. (...)

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Women’s Studies Center (Dongduk Women’s University) Women’s Studies Center at Dongduk Women’s University was built in 1998. The first professional women’s studies center in Korea is equipped with comprehensive system so that all women-related issues and research processes could be systematically planned and distributed. Various women-related research activities have been performed in this separate building: collection of women-related literatures, provision of information, conduct of researches and distribution of results, development of (...)