Sociologists For Women in Society
Feminist Sociology for Gender Justice
SWS is an international and intergenerational community of feminist sociologists, students, educators, practitioners, and advocates. We strengthen feminist scholarship and leadership, foster mentoring and connection, and bring sociological knowledge into public conversations and action for gender justice.
SWS at a Glance
- Advancing feminist sociology since 1971
- An international and intergenerational community
- Home of Gender & Society
- Connecting scholarship, teaching, mentoring, activism, and public engagement
Why Feminist Sociology Matters
Gender injustice is not produced by individual attitudes or choices alone. It is also built into workplaces, families, schools, health systems, laws, economies, and cultural expectations. Sociology helps us see these larger patterns, understand how power operates in everyday life, and identify what must change for equality to become real.
Feminist sociological research has transformed how people understand unpaid care, discrimination in the workplace, the gender wage gap, violence, health inequities, reproductive autonomy, and the ways gender intersects with race, class, sexuality, disability, nationality, and other structures of inequality. These insights now inform the work of educators, lawyers policymakers, public health professionals, advocates, organizers, and communities working for gender justice.
For more than five decades, SWS has helped sustain and advance this work. Inclusive of all genders and sexualities, our community supports feminist scholars across career stages and professional paths, strengthens the reach and impact of their work, and creates connections among research, teaching, advocacy, and social change.
Explore What SWS Offers
Membership
Join our community of scholars and professionals! As a member, you will gain stronger professional development, greater visibility and impact for feminist scholarship, and expanded networks with tailored support across career stages.
Our Journal
Gender & Society is the top-ranked journal in Sociology and Women’s Studies. Housed in SWS,
the journal focuses on on gender and gendered processes in interactions, organizations, societies,
and global and transnational spaces.
Resources
Access resources to increase public and professional understandings of gender and intersecting
systems of inequality through a sociological lens as well as obtain professional advice! From
teaching modules to career materials, take a look today.