Women’s Week
Women’s Week is an annual, weeklong event focused on gendered issues and challenges faced in today’s socioeconomic and political climate, intersectionality, and cultural movements. All are welcome to get involved and participate!
Women’s Week is an annual, weeklong event focused on gendered issues and challenges faced in today’s socioeconomic and political climate, intersectionality, and cultural movements. All are welcome to get involved and participate!
Gender bias can show up in health care in many ways but its prevalence has led to women being misdiagnosed, overmedicated, or dismissed altogether. As additional identities are intersected with gender identity, self-advocacy can become more difficult or impossible. The audience to walk away with tools to better advocate for themselves as patients as well as how to use that advocacy power with other women, especially those whose agency has been taken away.
Join Librarian Allyson Mower and Associate Museum Curator Emily Lawhead for a brief discussion of Minè Okubo (author of "Citizen 13660" and held at Topaz Utah) and other artists part of the current exhibition at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts "Pictures of Belonging." Then watch Betty LaDuke’s classic 1996 documentary "Persistent Women Artists."
This Women's Week, support the Utah Utes Softball team against Brigham Young University!
Stitch & B!tch is a space for students to engage in critical discussion and analysis as a community while collectively creating stitch-based fiber art such as quilting, embroidery, crochet, knitting, etc.! Join the Women's Resource Center and the Black Cultural Center to engage in a critical discussion about White feminism and work on a crochet project. No experience necessary! Materials will be provided.
Join the Women's Resource Center for the third workshop in our Barbie Series, “Brunch with Finance Barbie,” presented by Beth Hunsaker of the Financial Wellness Center. We’ll discuss how gender identity often shapes the ways in which we experience financial matters, and how women’s work and abilities regarding finances, household labor, and emotional labor in the workplace are often undervalued or unrecognized!
Reframing the Conversation brings together experts from across campus and the community to spark important conversations around othering and belonging.
With a focus on day-to-day achievements–both personal and professional–contributing to society, Women’s Week 2024 will highlight daily acts of heroism and motivate attendees to engage, break barriers, and foster a sense of importance in every individual’s role.
The University of Utah is hosting the third annual Utah Southwest Regional Conference on Student Research in Gender and Women Studies.
Join us for an insightful session during Women's Week, where we will delve into the unique aspects of women's aging. Explore the prevalent issue of ageism, challenges of the 'sandwich' generation, and intersection of women and dementia. Don't miss this opportunity to engage in a meaningful conversation about the diverse experiences of women as they age.