Women’s Studies can be extremely flexible and can enhance training in any area—women in business, women in arts, women in medicine, women in history, etc.
-Women’s Studies Graduates: The First Generation by Barbara F. Luebke and Mary Ellen Reilly (1995).
The major prepares one to do anything that any other liberal arts major does with deeper insight into issues of oppression and celebration of women.
People often ask what job opportunities become available from obtaining training in women’s studies. Graduates often excel in diverse areas including counseling, therapy, social work, law, journalism, market-analysis, political analysis, television production, union organizing, and fundraising. Graduate work in women’s studies enhances chances for faculty positions in traditional disciplines or can provide additional credential for students in the professions of law, education, or medicine.
University of Florida Resources
- Association for Academic Women at UF (opens in new tab)
- Black Women’s Image Initiative (opens in new tab)
- Feminist Pedagogy Reading Group (opens in new tab)
- Graduate Assistants United (opens in new tab)
- Pride Student Union
- UF LGBT Affairs (opens in new tab)
- UF Women’s Student Association (opens in new tab)
Academic Resources
- American Association of University Women (opens in new tab)
- Curricular Crossings: Women’s Studies and Area Studies (opens in new tab)
- Chronicle of Higher Education (opens in new tab)
- LGBT/Queer Studies Programs (opens in new tab)
- Women’s Studies Programs (opens in new tab)
Local and State Sites and Resources
- Bread and Roses Women’s Health Center (opens in new tab)
- Equality Florida (opens in new tab)
- Florida Commission for the Status of Women (opens in new tab)
- Florida Women’s Hall of Fame (opens in new tab)
- PACE Center for Girls (opens in new tab)
- Peaceful Paths (opens in new tab)
- Planned Parenthood of North Central Florida (opens in new tab)
- Pride Community Center of North Central Florida (opens in new tab)
- Rural Women’s Health Project (opens in new tab)
- Women and Gender in the U.S. South (opens in new tab)
General Sites and Career Resources
- Advancing Women (opens in new tab)
- AmeriCorps* Programs (opens in new tab)
- Artemis Guide to Women’s Studies Programs (opens in new tab)
- Association for Women’s Rights in Development (opens in new tab)
- Center for Women’s Global Leadership (Rutgers) (opens in new tab)
- Clio, Visualizing History: The Ongoing Feminist Revolution (opens in new tab)
- Corporation for National and Community Service (opens in new tab)
- Equality Now (opens in new tab)
- Feminist Majority Foundation (opens in new tab)
- Feminist Majority Foundation: Feminist Career Center (opens in new tab)
- Feminist.com (opens in new tab)
- Girls Incorporated (opens in new tab)
- Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. (opens in new tab)
- Idealist.org (opens in new tab)
- Inside NGO
- Institute for Global Communication (opens in new tab)
- Ms. Foundation (opens in new tab)
- National Council for Research on Women (opens in new tab)
- National Organization for Women (opens in new tab)
- National Women’s Hall of Fame (opens in new tab)
- National Women’s Health Center (opens in new tab)
- National Women’s Studies Association (opens in new tab)
- Nonprofit Career Network (opens in new tab)
- Opportunity Knocks (opens in new tab)
- Planned Parenthood (opens in new tab)
- Reading Women (opens in new tab)
- Scholarships and Grants for Women (opens in new tab)
- Third Wave Foundation (opens in new tab)
- U.S.A. Women’s Organizations (opens in new tab)
- Women’s Community on the Web (opens in new tab)
- Women’s Law Project (opens in new tab)
- Women in Archeology and History (opens in new tab)
- 4000 Years of Women in Science (opens in new tab)