What Can I do With a Degree in Women's Studies?

Career Center Library Resources
The Career Center Library has a variety of resources to help students explore potential career fields. These resources include information about typical responsibilities, qualifications, career paths, job outlook, salary, and related careers.

Books with Information for Women's Studies Majors

• Careers for Good Samaritans & Other Humanitarian Types
• Human Services Directories
• 100 Jobs in Social Change
• Real People Working in the Helping Professions
• Careers in Social Work

Books of General Interest to Liberal Arts Majors

• Great Jobs for Liberal Arts Majors
• The Best Jobs for the 21st Century
• The Career Guide for Creative and Unconventional People
• Making a Living While Making a Difference

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• Domestic Violence Program Coordinator
  
• Women's Business Training Center Director
  
• Minority Women's Outreach Coordinator
  

Professional Associations

• National Women's Studies Association

Internet Sites with Career-Related Information for Women's Studies Majors

• College Majors and Career Opportunities - Women's Studies — Lists related occupations and types of employers. From Career Services, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
• Careers and Women's Studies — From the Anna Howard Shaw Center for Women's Studies at Albion College, Albion, Michigan. Includes brief list of career paths for Women's Studies graduates. For additional information, this site recommends Women's Studies Graduates: The First Generation, which "describes the work of a number of women's studies graduates [whose] careers range from "aviator to union organizer."
• What to do with a Women's Studies Degree — From the Women's Studies Program at Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana.
• What You Can Do with a Women's Studies Major — From the Women's Studies Program at Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan. Also includes Fields of Employment Women's Studies Graduates Have Pursued, With Real Examples of Specific Job Placements Within Each Category.
• What do Women's Studies Graduates Do? — From the Women's Studies Program at the State University of New York, New Paltz, New York. Identifies career paths of many women's studies graduates.
• Why Major in Women's Studies — From the Women's Studies Program at the University of Connecticut. Lists career areas and job titles of women's studies graduates.
• What can you do with a Women's Studies Degree? — From the Women's Studies Program at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Lists job titles of women's studies graduates.

Internet Sites with Job Search Information for Women's Studies Majors

• Feminist Career Center — From the Feminist Majority Foundation. Lists full-time job openings and internships with feminist and progressive organizations. Also has links to feminist and nonprofit job banks.
• Employment: Women's Studies Database — From the University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland.

Places of Employment

Women's studies majors may find employment in a variety of areas depending on their skills and experience. Some women's studies graduates choose to work in advocacy or social services-related positions, community development, business, and government. Career-related internships or part-time jobs may be a prerequisite to finding professional-level employment after graduation in these and other fields.

Miscellaneous

• Artemis Search For Women's Studies Programs — Links to 425 Women's Studies Programs' web sites.
• Worldwide Women's Studies Programs — Includes "links to more than 450 women's studies (including "gender studies") programs, departments, and research centers around the world."

Department of Women's Studies - Portland State University