Find Your Path
Welcoming, enlightening, hopeful, exciting—these words describe our department. Wondering what your path might look like as a Women's & Gender Studies major?
What can you do with a degree in Women's & Gender Studies?
By the time they complete their degree, Women's and Gender Studies students are subject experts in the areas of gender, intersectionality, and equity, with an understanding of what it takes to empower themselves and others to become change makers. This makes them highly competitive on the job market, as employers increasingly seek candidates with intersectional expertise.
Career fields include:
- Business
- Communications
- Education
- Health
- Law and Politics
- Not-For-Profit and Advocacy Work
About the Department of Women's & Gender Studies
We are a community that cares deeply about social justice in every aspect of life.
See Our Teaching in Action
91ÖÆƬ³§ class hosts Women Studies Celebratory Event: The Past, Present, and Future of 91ÖÆƬ³§ Women Studies
A group of 91ÖÆƬ³§ students has collaborated to map Virginia's women in STEM, creating an online resource to track the commonwealth's impacts.
Jennifer Fish’s course gives students a study abroad experience at home – and a new way of looking at the world.
Tidewater Queer History Project is an academic/community partnership. A dedicated group of core volunteers works to collect and preserve LGBTQ history in and around Hampton Roads, Virginia.