女性领导 and 性别平等

We’ve been empowering women since 1869: The Pennsylvania Female College (now Chatham University) was founded to give women access to higher education. Since then, we’ve kept women’s leadership and gender equity at the forefront of our mission.

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中心 & 社区外展

Chatham promotes women’s leadership and gender equity through its award winning education and outreach programs, including the Center for Women’s Entrepreneurship, the Pennsylvania Center for Women and Politics, and the Chatham Women’s Institute.

视图中心 & 外展

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在教室里

As a fully gender inclusive university, we continue our historic commitment to advancing the causes of women's leadership, 赋权, and gender equity in the classroom.

研究学者

Outside the Classroom

Chatham University offers a wide variety of activities outside the classroom for graduate and undergraduate students interested in women's leadership and gender equity, including places to live, 奖学金, 俱乐部, 特别活动, 讲座, 电影, 撤退, 还有更多!

Info About Activities

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Teaching and Scholarship

Chatham University supports the scholarship and pedagogical practice of women's leadership and gender equity, on our campus and beyond. Our 教师 are experts in the scholarship and pedagogical practice of promoting women's leadership and gender equity.

Learn About Scholarship

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校园环境

To support a welcoming and inclusive living, 学习, and working environment at Chatham University, we use an intersectional social justice approach that recognizes the interlocking nature of power systems that often must be addressed simultaneously.

Read About 校园环境

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LGBTQIA+ Initiatives

Chatham is committed to a campus environment that is supportive and engaging for students who identify across the gender spectrum and sexual identity spectrum, including those who identify as transgender, 性别非二进制, genderqueer, and gender non-conforming.

LGBTQIA+ Initiatives

性别包容性

The CSG class of 2021 created this gender inclusivity video to provide an educational awareness for incoming students, 教师, 工作人员. Chatham continually strives for gender equity, and does not tolerate discrimination.

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三重奏荣誉协会

Chatham University has been recognized as the newest chapter (Zeta Zeta) of the National Women's & Gender Studies Honor Society, Iota Iota Iota (a.k.a. Triota). A national honor society with over 150 chapters, Triota’s purpose is to encourage and support scholarship, 卓越, and activism in women's and gender studies.

Learn About Triota at Chatham