Empowering Pathways: What is Possible with a WGS Major?

  • Marketing Assistant for National Museum of Women in the Arts

  • Lobbyist for the ACLU

  • Public Relations Associate for Girls Ink online magazine

  • Development Associate for non-profit organizations

  • Employee for International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children

  • Screenwriter

  • Employee for American Bar Association, working on CEDAW issues (Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women)

  • Lawyer

  • Legislative Assistant on Capitol Hill

  • Analyst for Democratic polling and consulting firm

  • Fundraiser for domestic violence shelter

  • Communications Director for Greenpeace

  • Social worker

  • Director of Communications at United Way

  • Staff at a battered women's shelter

  • Affirmative Action Officer

  • Family counselor

  • Women's health coordinator

  • Clinical therapist

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Important message of support from the WGS Department

The Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality affirms the importance of respecting and supporting all students, faculty, and staff at the University of Virginia, including those of us who are transgender, nonbinary, or gender questioning.  We believe that maintaining the excellence of the University as a public institution necessitates a positive affirmation of gender-inclusivity and the investment of resources to ensure that trans and nonbinary people thrive.

Pugh

Allison Pugh is Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Department of Women, Gender and Sexuality at the University of Virginia. Her research and teaching focus on how economic trends – from commodification to job insecurity to automation – shape the way people forge connections and find meaning and dignity at home and at work.

Event: 2020: Political and Social Legacies

Eric Klinenberg—Helen Gould Shepard Professor in the Social Sciences at New York University and contributor to magazines including The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books—discusses his book 2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed, which tells the stories of seven New Yorkers to explore how the pandemic, social movements, and 2020 presidential election changed our lives and society. How are the events of 2020 still shaping our debates and culture in 2024?

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Event: 2020: Political and Social Legacies

Eric Klinenberg—Helen Gould Shepard Professor in the Social Sciences at New York University and contributor to magazines including The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books—discusses his book 2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Change

Jennifer Nash: Picturing Loss