Welcome to the Women's and Gender Studies Consortium
Feminist Leadership Working Group
This initiative supports graduate students, faculty, and staff across the UW System interested in obtaining administrative leadership positions. It takes place during virtual meetings during the 2020-21 academic year. Sign-up forms can be found at the link below.
Resistance and Reimagination: Gender, Change, and the Arts
“Resistance and Reimagination: Gender, Change, and the Arts" will be held virtually from April 8-10, 2021. Find out more information about the keynotes and plenaries as well as the conference schedule.
Decolonizing Gender Studies Workshop
This project focuses on supporting equitable and anti-racist institutional practices. It seeks to transform the curriculum, teaching, operations, intersectional campus programming and the culture of historically white campuses that are still grappling with white supremacy.
About Us
The Women’s and Gender Studies Consortium directly serves Women’s and Gender Studies students, faculty, staff, and administrators in all University of Wisconsin institutions. The Women’s Studies and Gender Consortium is committed to scholarship, teaching and activism that benefit all UW campuses and communities throughout the state. To accomplish this work, the Consortium invites and considers diverse voices, and seeks collaborations to improve the life of each community and the state of Wisconsin.
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Ms. Magazine Article
The WGSC published a Ms. Magazine article, titled “COVID-19, Disaster Capitalism and the Crisis in Women’s and Gender Studies,” which contextualizes some of the trends happening in GWS and higher education within Wisconsin in a larger national and historical context.
Caregiving Task Force
Learn more about the systemwide task force in which the WGSC is participating. The task force aims to advance research on the gendered impacts of COVID-19 in higher education and develop ways to sustain and support caregivers across the UW System.
2020 WGSC Awardees
We are excited to share that 11 Women's and Gender Studies undergraduate students, across a variety of UW System campuses, have received awards that honor their research, community outreach, and scholarship. Congratulations to all the awardees for all of you hard work!
Office of the Gender and Women's Studies Librarian
The Office of the GWS Librarian was created in 1977 to serve administrators, faculty, librarians and students across the UW System. Since 1989 it has been a constituent of the Women's and Gender Studies Consortium.
Women and Science Program
Initiated by a grant from the Division of Undergraduate Education of the National Science Foundation, the Women and Science Program became a permanent part of the UW System in the fall of 1996. The program is based on the UW-Oshkosh campus and serves all UW System institutions.
News
WGSC Member and UW-Stout WGSS Professor Writes About Facilitating Classroom Discussions in Recently Published Book Chapter
Rickie-Ann Legleitner, WGSC member and UW-Stout Professor in the English department, adviser to the Women and Gender Sexuality Studies program, and inclusive excellence action plan coordinator, wrote a chapter called “Facilitating Difficult Discussions: Politics and …
Caregiving Task Force Member Becomes Co-Editor and Receives NAVSA Donald Gray Article Prize
Lisa Hager, Caregiving Task Force member, UW-Milwaukee-Waukesha Professor of English and Gender, Sexuality, & Women’s Studies, and Director of the LGBTQIA Resource Center, is the new co-editor of the academic journal Prose Studies. She also …
Caregiving Task Force Member and UW-La Crosse Graduate Featured in La Crosse Tribune
Melissa Baca, Caregiving Task Force member and UW-La Crosse graduate was featured in the La Crosse Tribune on December 19, 2020, in a piece called “Single mom graduating from UW-L this weekend hopes to create …
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