The Women’s Center works to improve gender equity for everyone on campus, students and employees, men, women and all genders. We’re a small office and we partner with student clubs, academic departments and administrative units across campus to provide education and resources.

Your support directly contributes to student success. This money can:

• Provide sustainable menstrual supplies. 1 in 5 first generation college students report experiencing period poverty, forcing them to chose between food and menstrual hygiene or resort to missing class or work. In the U.S., In the United States, more than 4 in 5 teens have either missed class time or know someone who missed class time because they did not have access to period products. Providing these supplies help to keep people who bleed in class and their education on track.

• Help LGBTQIA+ students see themselves in books and popular culture. We’re expanding our book collection featuring stories centering diverse characters so students of all backgrounds and identities can envision positive futures and relationships for themselves.

• Support student art that investigates gender equity. We just started exhibition awards for student artists whose work relates to the WMC mission. Our cash prizes are 100% donor-supported. Sponsor a student artist with your gift.

• Encourage students’ intellectual and creative publications through Attune. We feature critical articles and creative work from students of all disciplines, and students develop skills as designers and editors as they produce the journal.

• Fund the Wilma Carr Scholarship. This scholarship was created by Carr’s friends and co-workers after she was killed by her partner in a domestic violence incident. It supports Tech students who also have experienced power-based violence.

• Sponsor student participation in leadership opportunities. The WMC pays conference fees for students to attend the College of Business Women’s Leadership Conference and the Women in Higher Education conference each year.

• Help us engage student clubs. We regularly work with the Peer Empowerment Program, Lambda GSA, All Ladies in Civil Engineering, the women’s residence hall, and Greek life to name a few, hosting events and educational sessions on things like pronoun use, breast self-exams, and sexual violence prevention.