On June 1, Texas Christian University will close its stand-alone gender studies and race and ethnic studies departments and fold the majors and courses into the English Department, university leaders ...

UT San Antonio officials say merging race and gender studies with another department is a routine step to save money.

Gain a clear understanding of Gender Studies an academic field that explores how gender influences social roles, identity, power, and inequality. This simplified introduction breaks down key terms, ...

Texas A&M University’s move last week to close its women’s and gender studies program is highlighting the longstanding vulnerabilities of a field that grew out of the women’s liberation movement of ...

The University of Iowa Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies (GWSS) department, a trailblazer since its founding in 1974, is closing to make way for a new school in the College of Liberal Arts and ...

The University of Iowa’s Department of Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2024. In 2025, it may no longer exist as an individual department. Established in 1974 ...

The Department of Women and Gender Studies at the University of Delaware offers several minors and a specialized concentration for students in the women and gender studies major. The Domestic Violence ...

The move meant WGS would have its own full-time faculty, a chair reporting directly to the dean and more money for programming. Faculty celebrated the milestone as a sign their work—and their place on ...

Kinnon R. MacKinnon receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Annie Pullen Sansfaçon receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research ...