Address: Gender Studies Centre
Siauliai University
P.Visinskio st. 25-701
LT - 76351, Šiauliai
Tel./Fax. +370 41 595 757
E-mail: msc@cr.su.lt
ŠU Women's studies center was established and approved of the Senate act in September, 1997. According to the ŠU Senate act, issued on the 18th of May in 2005 the center of Women's studies was re-organized into the Institute of Gender studies. On the 27th of February, 2008 the Institute of Gender studies was transformed into the Center of Gender studies. The director of this center is senior researcher, Doctor of Social Sciences Virginija Šidlauskienė.
The mission of the center - trough scientific, educational, academic and project work to facilitate opportunities for the factual women's and men's equality, to develop the policy of women's rights and equality between two genders and to expand society's perception in the realm of gender problems, to make influence on political processes.
The goal of the center - to develop gender studies & research as interdisciplinary discourse, with a view to secure equal in order to guarantee rights in the sphere of education & science, professional activities, employment opportunities health care and towards equal responsibilities as well as to a more efficient approach in family and career between men and women.
On the 19th of March, 2009 new regulations of Center for Gender Studies were confirmed.
The staff
Director, senior researcher Dr. V. Šidlauskienė
tel./fax. +370 41 59 57 57 E-mail: msc@cr.su.lt
Senior researcher Dr. A. Vosyliūtė
tel./fax. +370 41 59 57 57
E-mail: avosyliute@takas.lt
Coordinator for International projects P. Baranauskas tel./fax. +370 41 59 57 57
E-mail: p.baranauskas@su.lt