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Are you consider a major or double major in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies and want more information? Are you wondering what sorts of jobs GSW graduates hold?

Generally, gender studies prepares students to meet the societal needs of analyzing social inequities, initiating change, and confronting social injustice. GSW graduates are educated mindful citizens who are socially and politically active in the broadest sense.

When researchers Barbara Luebke and Mary Ellen Reilly began examining what jobs Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies majors held after after graduation, they found them working in a variety of fields. This included education, health care, the media, the arts, politics, law, social work, psychology, sports, business, and industry. The jobs reported included:

Administrator of a human services department
Advocate for victims of domestic violence and hate crimes
Artist
Associate director of a human rights organization
Business owner
Clergy
Communications consultant
Congressional aide
Coordinator of a women’s health clinic
Director of social service agency
Executive director of a foundation
Film production assistant
Flight instructor
Journalist
Law enforcement officer
Librarian
Manager of energy conservation
Musician
Novelist
Nurse practitioner
Physician
Professor
Program director of a rape crisis center
Psychologist
Psychotherapist
Public health educator
Public relations director
Social worker
Teacher
Theater staff
Town manager
Union organizer

Click to read their original research article.

Many other people have also answered the question – Why would you study gender studies?

Click to view a list of employers and job titles where gender, sexuality, and women’s studies graduates are specifically wanted.

Click to read what about the women’s and gender studies career path, and how women’s and gender studies prepares you for job opportunities.

Click to find out five reasons for why you should study women’s studies.

Click to read a Ms. Magazine’s article by Nikki Ayanna Stewart about how women’s and gender studies majors are transforming the world.

If you have more questions, you can also talk to the program director or to the experts in the JCU Center for Career Services.

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