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Last updated:
November 2008

UAA WOMEN'S STUDIES

What Can You Do With a Women's Studies Degree?

Women's studies students have gone on to work in the following occupations:
* advocate for domestic violence victims * journalist * advocate for hate-crime victims * law enforcement * archivist * lawyer * art therapist * librarian * artist * minister * battered women's center director * musician * business owner * nurse-midwife * clinical social worker * Planned Parenthood clinic coordinator * college professor * program associate at human rights organization * communications consultant * psychotherapist * congressional fellow * public and government relations manager * cooperative grocery manager * rape crisis program director * director of program for inner-city teenagers * recreational therapist * doctor * sexual assault/sexual abuse educator * energy conservation manager * teacher * film-casting assistant * theater worker * flight instructor * town manager * health clinic medical assistant * union organizer * HIV educator * university staff psychologist * hospital foundation executive director * writer * human services administrator * (Barbara F. Luebke and Mary Ellen Reilly's Women's Studies Graduates: The First Generation, 1995)

A Brief Bibliography:
http://www.pdx.edu/careers/majorwomensstudies.html- from Portland State University Career Center, this site contains Career Center Library Resources, Books with Information for Women's Studies Majors, Vocational Biographies, Professional Associations, Internet Sites with Career-Related Information for Women's Studies Majors, Internet Sites with Job Search Information for Women's Studies Majors, and Places of Employment

http://www.msu.edu/~wmstdy/wsmjr1.htm- Career Opportunities For Women's Studies Major's an Annotated Bibliography- last updated November 1998

http://www.feministcampus.org/know/career/-Search a national job and internship database for feminist jobs and/or sign up for your copy of Feminist Jobs Digest