CELEBRATE OUR ACHIEVEMENTS BY GIVING BACK
The UCLA Center for the Study of Women was founded in 1984 as the first research center on women, gender, and sexuality in the University of California system.
Since then, we have been at the forefront of world-changing research that breaks barriers and challenges the status quo. Our goal is ambitious but critical, especially in today’s climate: we aim to create a world where education and scholarship are tools for social justice feminism.
Celebrate almost four decades of our work by giving back. At a time when gender equality is under attack, your generosity can help sustain and advance the transformative changes that our research has brought about since our inception. Even more importantly, it will enable our faculty and students to instigate future change, so that gender equity can be a reality.
What CSW does
Gender shapes our everyday lives and experiences of the world, and that is why no problem can be solved without asking how gender is involved. When other researchers have neglected questions of gender and sexuality, or have marginalized women’s perspectives, CSW has stepped up.
By placing gender at the fore, our researchers ask new questions—and identify innovative solutions. For instance, we have shown that you cannot successfully tackle water conservation without exploring how gendered social roles shape how families share housework. We have revealed how the expansion of prisons in the United States is not only a criminal justice issue, but is a gender justice issue. CSW research shows that gender matters, that women’s perspectives matter, and that to address the world’s most pressing problems we need to pay attention to the knowledge that women and gender minorities bring to the table.
At UCLA, researchers from across the campus look to CSW as a hub for multi-disciplinary scholarship and collaboration. Our unique, cross-disciplinary identity enables partnerships to form between creative thinkers from diverse backgrounds—including historians, artists, ethnographers, physicians, scientists, policy makers, and more. We bring these researchers together on projects that identify solutions to critical problems that hamper gender equality. Our collaborative structure makes us responsive and nimble, enabling our researchers to target the most pressing issues of a given moment.
Where Your Gifts Go
We want to raise funds to ensure that CSW remains a vital research incubator and UCLA’s feminist nucleus. With your support, we can continue to challenge disciplinary assumptions in a constantly changing world.
Your gifts provide funding for foundational research that works towards eliminating gender inequality. This includes funding opportunities for graduate and undergraduate students, postdoctoral, staff, and academic research positions for innovative thinkers and collaborators, and free, public programming that brings together world-renowned scholars and activists.
Your gift will support our current research streams, which focus on solutions to critical problems that hamper gender equality:
Rethinking Sexual Violence
Gender and Water
Chemical Entanglements
Feminist Carceral Studies
Black Feminism Initiative
Thank You For Supporting CSW
All contributions, large or small, make a difference. We accept funds in various forms, including donations, grants, and estate gifts. To give, visit our online donation form, or contact the Management Services Officer.
