Purpose

Services

The Womens Center is an on

campus resource center serving
students, staff, and members of
the surrounding community. Located in 007 BSB, the Womens
Center strives to enhance the lives
of women at SRU. The Womens
Center staff work collaboratively
to:

The Bridge Project - a grant

funded program providing education and advocacy to reduce
violence against women.
Clearinghouse - the Womens
Center serves as the campus link
to programs, events and activities relevant to women. Visit our
website or call for information.
Programs - the Womens Centercollaberates with other departments and offices to provide
special programming complementary to its mission.
Support and Referrals - staff
will provide support and referral
information for those in need.
Meeting Space - the Womens
Center provides a comfortable
atmosphere in which to hold
group meetings. Call to reserve
the Center for your next meeting.
Resources - a large number of
books, videos, and informational
materials are available for loan.

Educate the campus community

about womens contributions to
society
Recognize, celebrate, and promote the multicultural realities
of womens lives
Challenge barriers to gender
equity
Affirm students identities
Foster leadership opportunities
Advocate for social justice
Build alliances across race, sexual orientation, gender identity
and expression, class, age, and
ability
The Womens Center serves as the
collective voice for those who share
a commitment to issues concerning
women.

The Womens Center regularly host meetings of:

Presidents Commission on the

Status of Women
Womens studies reading group
RockOUT - SRU queer community
Feminist Majority Leadership

Programs

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C
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lothesline
roject (CLP) is a
program started
on Cape Cod, Massachusetts
in 1990 to address the issue
of violence against women. It
is a vehicle for women affected by violence to expess their
emotions by decorating a shirt.
They then hang the shirt on a
clothesline to be viewed by others as testimony to the problem
of violence against women. The
Womens Center is the conservator of the SRU community
Alliance Clothesline Project.
The project consists of over 150
shirts created for victims and
survivors of interpersonal violence, both on campus and in
the surrounding community. It
is available for loan to student
and community organizations.
Contact the Womens Center
for more information.

Why a Womens Center?

The percentage of students who
are women has been steadliy increasing since the 1970s. Today,
women students are the statistical majority; however, the social climate is slow in adjusting
to this change. For example, in
the job market, women typically
earn less money than men doing
the same job. Women are most
likely to be the battered partner
in violent relationships. Women
are more likely than men to be
faced with the dilemma of limiting their career oppurtunities to
care for a family. Women have
more difficulty reaching upper
levels of most professions. Women are less likely to be elected
to public office; Pennsylvania
only has one women in the U.S.
House of Representatives and no
women in the U.S. Senate. SRU
recognizes the need for ongoing
advocacy and support for women if such discrepancies are to
change.

Lower Level
Strain Behavioral
Science Building (BSB)
Slippery Rock University
Slippery Rock, PA 16057
Phone 724-738-2992
Fax 724-738-4412
Email womenscenter@sru.edu
W omen s Cen t er In f ormat ion

The Womens
Center
Slippery Rock
University