• A differentiated, systematic, and comprehensive understanding of women and gender in the past and in the future is developed, for all cultures and regions of the world, through the perspective of analytical feminist theory.
• This feminist understanding transforms the traditional disciplines and fields of scholarship by integrating the new methods, theories and information that are created from feminist studies.
• The connection between scholarship, everyday life, and politics is crucial. The purpose of scholarship is to help improve the situation of people, by combating repression, discrimination, poverty, and exploitation.

Women's and Gender Studies

Since the recent women’s liberation movements in the 1970s and 80s, Women’s and Gender Studies offerings have established themselves at universities in many countries. These offerings usually share a critical and engaged gender perspective, even if their approach has become less politicized in comparison to Feminist Studies. In North America and in the United States, Women’s Studies developed early and have become quite common. In the meantime, however, Women’s and Gender Studies can also be studied in many other countries and regions of the world:

• in North America 
• in Europe
• in Germany
• elsewhere

Diversity Studies

Based on the template of women's and gender studies, a new program has spread to numerous universities around the world, starting in North America, that focuses on cultural, ethnic, and sexual diversity. African-American, Indian, and homosexual communities are a topic of study and the influence of such factors as age, handicap, social status etc. on opportunities and lifestyles. [Links] (Available in German only)