Careers
What can I do with a Women’s and Gender Studies degree?
A Women’s and Gender Studies degree opens doors to a wide range of meaningful and impactful careers.
Below you’ll find examples of job titles, employment sectors, and employers where our recent graduates have built their careers.
Common Career Opportunities and Job Titles
- Author
- Child and Family Protection Worker (Collaborative Practice Team)
- Child Care Policy Analyst
- Communications Officer
- Counselling / Counselor
- Counselor Lobbyist
- Crime Victim Services Worker
- Director of Shelters, Girls, and Family Programs
- Economic Policy Analyst
- Educator
- Educational Assistant
- Equal Employment Opportunity Specialist
- Equity Officer
- Events Assistant
- Executive Assistant
- Executive Director
- Foreign Service Officer
- Front Line Worker
- Health and Social Services Worker
- Health Care Aide
- Human Resources Manager
- Human Rights Officer
- Institute Administrator
- Instructional Designer
- Intelligence Officer
- Intercultural Programs Coordinator
- International Development Worker
- Journalist
- Junior Policy Officer
- Lawyer
- Legislative Assistant
- LGBT Service Worker
- Management – Women’s Advocacy
- Manager – Resources Centre and IT Services
- Marketing Coordinator
- Midwifery Provider
- Network Engagement Manager
- Parliamentary Affairs Officer
- Planned Parenthood Worker
- Policy Analyst
- Policy and Programs Analyst
- Policy Officer
- Postdoctoral Research Associate
- Primary Prevention Educator
- Program Coordinator
- Public Servant
- Rape Crisis Services Worker
- Researcher
- Sexual Assault Prevention Educator
- Social Policy Analyst
- Social Policy Equity Consultant
- Social Policy Researcher
- Teacher
Did you know that …
FIST offers a practicum course (WGST 4903, WGST 4904) for Women’s and Gender Studies students who choose to pursue a specific area of research? Opportunities are provided to students to apply their women’s and gender studies knowledge to a specific project or problem. Students may have the choice of identifying a specific research project or area that they wish to pursue in conjunction with an institutional placement. Each placement will be negotiated individually as a contract between the student, instructor and institutional partner.
Employment Sectors
- Administration and Management
- Arts, Multimedia, Communications
- Education
- Graduate Studies/Graduate Student
- Human Resources and Finance
- Human Services
- Medical Profession
- Policy, Law and Public Safety
- Post-Secondary Education
- Sales, Marketing and Entrepreneurship
- Skilled Trades
- Technology and Engineering
Employers
- Akwesasne Mohawk Board of Education
- Berlin Metropolitan School
- Canada Border Services Agency
- Canadian Centre for Gender & Sexual Diversity
- Carefor Health & Community Services
- Carleton University
- Carleton University – Interdisciplinary Studies
- Carleton University – ISSO
- Carleton University – Transgender Media Lab
- Correctional Service Canada
- County Casa
- Department of Transport
- Employment and Social Development Canada
- Environment and Climate Change Canada
- Family and Children’s Services of Renfrew County
- Global Affairs Canada
- Hybrid Brand Management
- Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada
- King’s-Edgehill School
- Legislative Assembly of Ontario
- Loblaw Companies Limited
- Lycee Francais International de Hong Kong
- Metro Community Living
- Nelligan Law
- Omni Health Care – Frost Manor
- Ontario Nonprofit Network
- Ottawa Carleton District School Board
- Parks Canada
- Planned Parenthood Ottawa
- Qventures
- Queen’s University
- Safe Place and Rape Crisis Center
- Sagen
- Seneca College
- Shared Services Canada
- Shepherds of Good Hope
- Sagen
- Safe Place and Rape Crisis Center
- Seneca College
- Shepherds of Good Hope
- Shared Services Canada
- St. Jude’s Academy
- Stanley Mutual
- SterlingIM
- Switch Health
- TallGrass Natural Health
- The Ottawa Hospital
- TimePlan Education Group Limited
- Toronto Transit Commission
- Treasury Board of Canada
- Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat
- University of Ottawa
- University of Toronto
- University of Victoria
- University of Western Ontario / Western University
- Whitehaven Childcare
- Women and Gender Equality Canada
- YWCA Banff
- YWCA Toronto