2007.06.22 GM(Gender Mainstreaming) Research Department/Family Policy Research Department is established 2007.05.13 Kim Kyung-Ai takes office as 11th President of KWDI 2005.05.29 KWDI was replaced under the supervision of the National Research Council for Economic, Humanities and Social Sciences
	1999.01.29 The "Act on the Establishment, Management and Promotion of Government Sponsored Research Institutes" was enacted and the KWDI was placed in the Korea Council of Humanities and Social Research Institute under the Office of the Prime Minister. 1998.02.28 Due to government restructuring policy, the KWDI was put under the umbrella of the .Presidential Commission on Women's Affairs. 1991.04.18 According to a regulation concerning the commission and regulation of administrative .authority, the authority to supervise and coordinate the tasks of the KWDI was transferred to the .Ministry of Political Affairs (2).
	1983.04.21 The KWDI was established under the Ministry of Health and Welfare as a national .machinery to deal exclusively with women's affairs. 1982.12.31 The KWDI Act was passed by the National Assembly. It owes its passage to the U.N. Declaration of International Women's Year (1975), the U. N. Decade for Women (1976-1985), and .Korean women who shared the worldwide recognition that women's full and equal participation is .essential to the world's development and peace.