UCLA Center for the Study of Women is an organized research unit at the University of California, Los Angeles

University of California, Los Angeles

The University of California, Los Angeles is a public research university located in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, USA. It was founded in 1919 as the "Southern Branch" of the University of California and is the second oldest of the ten campuses...

 and a member of the National Council for Research on Women. Founded in 1984, the center works to develop and disseminate faculty and graduate student research on gender, sexuality, and women's issues through conferences, grants, seminars, and publications.

Organization

The Center for the Study of Women was approved as an organized research unit by the Regents of the University of California

Regents of the University of California

The Regents of the University of California make up the governing board of the University of California. The Board has 26 full members:* The majority are appointed by the Governor of California for 12-year terms....

 in 1984, becoming the first organized research unit in the University of California

University of California

The University of California is a public university system in the U.S. state of California. Under the California Master Plan for Higher Education, the University of California is a part of the state's three-tier public higher education system, which also includes the California State University...

 system dedicated to research on gender related issues. The center works with UCLA’s Women Studies Program to develop curriculum and promote feminist

Feminism

Feminism is a collection of movements aimed at defining, establishing, and defending equal political, economic, and social rights and equal opportunities for women. Its concepts overlap with those of women's rights...

 scholarship among UCLA students.

Publications

• 1986 Research on Women and Gender : a Directory of UCLA Scholars

• 1995 Encountering the Glass Ceiling: Gender, Values, and the Structure of Work Conference Proceedings (UCLA Institute of Industrial Relations)

• 1992 "Gender, Islam and democratization in Jordan : the case of Toujan al-Faysal" Conference Proceeding (G.E. von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies)

• 2001-2005 Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society.

• 2006-2010 Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies

• 2005–present CSW Update

Directors

• Kathleen McHugh: 2005–present
• Christine Littleton: 2003-05
• Miriam Silverberg: 2000-03
• Sandra Harding
  Sandra Harding
  Sandra G. Harding is an American philosopher of feminist and postcolonial theory, epistemology, research methodology and philosophy of science.She has contributed to standpoint theory and to the multicultural study of science...
  
  : 1996-99
• Kathryn Norberg: 1992-95
• Helen Astin: 1990-91
• Julia Wrigley: 1990-91
• Carrie Menkel-Meadow: 1988-90
• Letitia Anne Peplau: 1988-90
• Karen Rowe: 1984-88 (Founding Director)