History

1960's - 1970's	Women´s Movement creates global momentum for change.
1975 - 1985	UN Decade of Women – Activities intensified to improve the status of women and transform gender relations.
1977	Regional seminar on The Integration of Women in Caribbean Development, in Jamaica recommends establishment of a “Women and Development Unit” at the University of the West Indies.
1978	Women and Development Unit (WAND) established in Barbados to build consciousness, capacity and cohesion and to link academics and activists on issues related to women in rural development, in low income households and in trade unions.
1979 - 1982	Women in the Caribbean Project (WICP) developed, meeting of regional educators hosted by WAND recommended establishment of a multi-disciplinary teaching programme at the UWI within a five-year period.
-	Women and Development Studies (WDS) Groups formed on the three UWI campuses comprised of women and men at UWI. The aims were to: increase knowledge of gender issues in the Caribbean; prepare an integrated, interdisciplinary programme of Women/Gender and Development Studies and link teaching research and outreach.
1986	Gender in Caribbean Development, Inaugural Seminar organized by the WDS Group, St. Augustine in September 1986 – informed agenda for change.
1986	Gender and Development Studies institutionalized at UWI with 7-year funding support from a project on ‘Co-operation in Teaching and Research in Women and Development Studies Project’ funded by the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague; and the Overseas Development Co-operation Division of the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Programme includes: undergraduate and graduate students and researchers.
1992	WDS 10^th anniversary symposium, Mona, Jamaica, December 1992.
1993	CGDS was instituted at UWI (September 1, 1993).

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