About The Women’s Center

Our Vision

The Women’s Center will work to create and maintain an equitable and inclusive environment of accepting, culturally competent, and supportive campus members.

Our Mission

The Ramapo College Women’s Center and LGBTQ services utilizes an intersectional feminist perspective to lead, support, and advance efforts for gender equity. The Center maintains a commitment to sustaining and strengthening social justice engagement and education through co-curricular programming, social action, and advocacy. By promoting equity, diversity, inclusion, and acceptance, the Center helps foster a campus free from racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, classism, and ageism, while also challenging multiple forms of oppression and discrimination.

Our Goals

Founded in 1974, the Women’s Center was established to:

• Dismantle, from a feminist perspective, all forms of oppression, including but not limited to those based on ability, age, class, ethnicity, gender, race, and sexual orientation.
• Advocate for an equitable environment free from violence and harassment based on gender, race, and sexual orientation.
• Create an anti-racist, non-sexist, queer-affirmative space where all people can feel valued and safe.
• Facilitate and strengthen connections among people across lines of difference through programming and educational campaigns.
• Integrate an appreciation of Women’s, Gender and Multicultural Studies across the disciplines.

Why do we need a Women’s Center?

• Racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, and other forms of oppression and discrimination still plague our society
• White women make $0.79, Black women make $0.60, Hispanic women make $0.55, American Indian and Native Alaskan make $0.59, and Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander women make $0.62 to a man’s $1.00
• 1 in 12 transgender women and 1 in 8 transgender women of color have a chance of being murdered
• 43% of queer and trans people experience some form of job discrimination
• 1 in 4 eating disorders occur in men
• There are nearly 20 millions cases of STIs every year
• There are 12.3 million victims of human trafficking and only 0.4% of victims have been identified
• 1 in 5 women and 1 in 7 men have experienced severe physical violence by an intimate partner
• Over 99% of women in America say that they have been a victim of street harassment