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What Can You Do With a Major in Gender and Sexualities Studies?

Gender and sexualities studies major careers and jobs

Like any liberal arts program, the major in gender and sexualities studies gives you experience in pursuing questions both deeply and from a variety of angles — skills that employers look for and that will make you competitive in the job market no matter what field you go into. Our courses cultivate students’ ability to work in the world as people for others — to analyze unjust dynamics in order to promote justice in any field, to help institutions navigate an increasingly complex social world, to think critically, to solve problems, to collaborate in formulating shared goals and achieving them, to seek out and amplify diverse perspectives, and to champion equitable policies.

The major in gender and sexualities studies can help you in:

Education
Law
Health and Medicine
Community Organizing or Community-Based Research
Market Research and Advertising
Human Resources
Nonprofit Organizations
Journalism
Grant Writing
Editing
Theater
Visual Arts
Lobbying, Legislative Work, and Politics
International Aid
Social Work
Pastoral Care
Civic Administration
Museums
Public Relations
Law Enforcement
Publishing
Engineering
Computer Science
University/College Administration
Anything that involves people!

Additional resources for careers in gender and sexualities studies

Gender and Sexualities

YOU MIGHT LIKE THE GENDER and sexualities STUDIES MAJOR IF YOU:

✓ Want to ask new questions about the how thinking critically about gender and sexuality can help us to re-evaluate the focus of many disciplines

✓ Want to understand how power works through gender and sexuality alongside capital, race, nation, religion, and disability

✓ Explore ways in which gender-based divisions affect human beings

✓ Are interested in the roles of women and sexual and gender minorities in in the 21st century

WHAT IS THE MAJOR IN GENDER and sexualities STUDIES?

Studying at the Brew

Gender and Sexualities Studies promotes a critical, feminist, intersectional, and cultural understanding of gender, sexuality, and power in a global context and across disciplinary boundaries. It can help you to better understand the world around you and provide you with the knowledge and skills necessary to be a leader for justice and equity in your career and the rest of your life.

What is the major in gender and sexualities studies?

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