The Women’s Center, located in College Center 235, offers a lounge space and programming on various components of gender equity, leadership, empowerment, and health.

The Women’s Center is also a space to relax, read a book or magazine while sipping some tea, talk with one of the interns or the Center director, or pick up some information about local and national gender resources. 

Does your campus org need a place to meet?

The Women’s Center strives to serve the campus in a variety of ways, including hosting campus org general body meetings in its open and welcoming space. If you want your class or org to meet in the Women’s Center, get in touch with the Women’s Center staff.

The Women’s Center works diligently to support, celebrate, and empower all individuals who identify as women. We would like to emphasize that the Center is not just for women nor is it just about women. Instead, the Center welcomes and engages persons of all genders, as we recognize that equity and justice cannot be achieved by working in silos. 

Mission

The Women’s Center supports and celebrates leadership; provides empowering spaces for all women and non-binary individuals; takes action to address gender inequity on campus; provides programming and resources on local, national and global gender issues; honors Vassar College’s unique history; and promotes understanding among people of different genders, cultures, beliefs, ethnic backgrounds, abilities, and sexual orientations.

Vision

The Women’s Center envisions an equitable and just campus where individuals feel safe and empowered; students value learning about a wide variety of gender-related topics; and students will take the gender equity values they learn about at Vassar to positively influence society at large.

Values

• All students, staff, and faculty are welcome.
• Our work focuses on and embraces all women and non-binary individuals. 
• Students’ needs, interests, and passions are the drivers of our programming and initiatives.
• We seek to raise the campus community’s awareness of gender issues as well as provide space for specific groups to explore and affirm their identities.
• Collaborating with other Centers, offices and student groups makes our work more effective and relevant to the campus.
• We support and cultivate communities that embrace feminism, gender justice, and trans-inclusion.