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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
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