UN Women/core funding Voluntary core support to UN Women the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. UN Women was founded in July 2010 and launched in early 2011 by combing four existing UN entities (UNIFEM DAW, INSTRAW and OSAGI). UN Women promo
tes gender equality and the empowerment of women by normative and operational country-level action. UN Women is also responsible for UN system-wide coordination of gender equality.