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. Stay tuned for our 2021-22 academic year schedule.
Resistance and Reimagination: Gender, Change, and the Arts
“Resistance and Reimagination: Gender, Change, and the Arts" took place virtually from April 8-10, 2021. The pre-recorded presentations and poster sessions are still available to view.
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 Jodi Vandenberg-Daves Quoted in New York Times Article
Dr. Jodi Vandenberg-Daves, UW-La Crosse Professor of Race, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, has been quoted in a New York Times article by Lisa Selin Davis, featured as part of the “In Her Words” section of …
WGSC Member and UW-Stout WGSS Professor Rickie-Ann Legleigner Publishes New Book
Rickie-Ann Legleitner, WGSC member and UW-Stout Professor in the English department, advis0r to the Women and Gender Sexuality Studies program, and inclusive excellence action plan coordinator, published a new book called, “Women Writing the American …
WGSC Director Stephanie Rytilahti Cited in Telegraph Herald Article
Stephanie Rytilahti, WGSC Director and Co-Chair of the Caregiving Task Force, was featured in a Telegraph Herald article, “‘Balancing act’ for tri-state moms during pandemic.” An excerpt of what Dr. Rytilahti shared is below. Stephanie …
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