Welcome to the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies

Welcome to the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies!

The Department offers academic programs, grants graduate and undergraduate degrees, and advances research in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies. Faculty in the Department successfully compete for national fellowships and grants, win research and teaching awards, and produce rigorous and transformative research. The Department serves 600+ majors, minors and graduate students and has a robust experiential learning program, placing 200+ students in 30+ internship and practicum sites per year. Students are campus leaders and go on to rich and diverse careers in industry, public service, policy, as well as to graduate and professional study. Over three-fourths of women’s studies majors gain work experience and participate in internships during their education at UF. Majors have a strong post-graduation employment rate and graduate school acceptance rate.

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What our graduates are saying

“Besides enriching me as a person, Women’s Studies has served me in the professional realm by arming me with the listening (not just hearing, but really listening), writing, research and persuasive skills needed to succeed in many fields.”
— Megan Seery
Program Alum

“[My Thesis] project has shown me that there is a way to blend technical tools like wikis and databases with feminist ethics of breaking down barriers to knowledge.”
— Tim D’Annecy
Program Alum

“I asked more questions, I looked at things differently and began growing into myself in a way that felt genuine. After my epiphany, I officially changed my major to Women Studies and searched for creative ways to marry my interests. I put a gender lens on African Studies, Latin American studies, literature, and Haitian Vodou.”
— Cynthia Valdez
Program Alum

Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies

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