The Worldwide Organization for Women's Studies (WOWS) is a federation of women's studies associations. It was founded in 1996 to promote and support feminist knowledge, critiques of knowledge, the practices and research which will improve the quality of women's lives. A WOWS subcommittee, which includes the organizer of the most recent IICW and, possibly, prior conferences, selects the next site for the IICW.
The IICW benefits from WOWS' global communications network for selecting conference sites and disseminating information about upcoming congresses. WOWS aspires to bring national groups together, thereby creating international networks and linkages.

• Address: Worldwide Organization of Women's Studies
  Asian Center for Women’s Studies, Ewha Womans University
  11-1 Daehyun-dong, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul 120-750, Korea
  
  
• E-mail: wows@ww05.org
  
  
• Web: www.ww05.org/wows