A degree in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies opens doors in a wide range of industries from education to business, Humanitarian efforts, historic preservation, and advocacy and even health care, human services and law enforcement.
What can I do with this major?
Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Career Fields:
- Local and State Government
- Federal Government
- Politics
- Law
- Planning and Conservation
- Nonprofit
- Environmental Law
Highlighted Careers:
- Public Policy
- Regional Planning
- City or Town Management
- Public Policy
- Research
- Intelligence
- Special Interest Advocacy
- Nonprofit or Public Interest
- Government
- Mediation
- Fund Raising/Development
- Grant Writing
- Writing/Editing
- Volunteer Coordination
- Community Education
Career Resources
Academic & Professional Organizations
Professional Resources
- Job Statistics: Social and Community Service Managers
- Job Statistics: Postsecondary Teacher
- Job Statistics: Social and Human Services Assistants
- Feminist.org Job Listings
Internships
Internships provide an excellent setting for professional development, workplace discipline, subject specific job experience, and networking opportunities.
These organizations provide occasional and ongoing internships:
- WGSX – related internships and jobs in the MD-VA-DC area (PDF)
- Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Resources from St. Mary’s Library
- Gender Public Advocacy Coalition (GPAC)
- Graduate Programs in Women’s Studies
- FeministCampus.Org
- Feminist Majority Foundation (Feminist.org’s job/internship listings)
- Women’s Learning Partnership
- Jobs/internships at Idealist.org
- National Organization for Women
- National Women’s Studies Association Awards and Scholarships
- Brown Women’s Writer Project
- Women Writers from Jack Lynch’s Literary Resources Pages
- Gender Studies Pages at Voice of the Shuttle (non-Western Literature)
- Queer Theory: Queer Studies, Gender Studies & Related Fields