The Women’s Center at the NOVA/NVCC Alexandria Campus provides a physical and virtual space to foster an environment in which women of diverse backgrounds can best fulfill their personal, educational, and professional goals.
Information
- Location:
- Alexandria, VA, 22311
- Phone:
- 703-845-6218
- Mon - Thurs:
- 11:00 am - 7:00 pm
- Fri:
- 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Events
7 past eventsSee All
- Grand Re-Opening of The Women'...
Room 331, Bisdorf Building, Alexand...
Wednesday, October 7 at 10:00am - Dating Violence Intervention R...
Room 331, Bisdorf Building, Alexand...
Tuesday, October 6 at 6:00pm - Equal Pay Day Conversation
Room 148, Bisdorf Building
Tuesday, April 28 at 12:00pm - The Clothesline Project
Cafeteria, Bisdorf Building
Monday, April 13 at 9:00am - Women's History 2009: Short Fi...
Room 158, Bisdorf Building
Tuesday, March 24 at 12:30pm - Silent Auction
Room 158, Bisdorf Building
Wednesday, March 18 at 12:00pm - All Couples Fight...Don't They?
Room 148, Bisdorf Building
Thursday, March 19 at 12:00pm
Links
NOVA Women's Center In the news: WHO reports that AIDS is the leading cause of death, disease in women
Source: www.dailymail.co.uk
More women aged between 15 and 44 die or suffer ill health due to the virus that causes AIDS, than any other pathogen, the WHO said.
NOVA Women's Center Ideas worth spreading: Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Adichie talks about the dangers of buying into the "single story."
Source: www.ted.com
TED Talks Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice -- and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding.
NOVA Women's Center Dating Violence Intervention Roundtable featured in the NOVA Fortnightly student newspaper.
The NOVA Fortnightly » Blog Archive » Dating Abuse Forum Educates Students » News for NVCC: Northern
Source: novafortnightly.com
If everyone were an activist against emotional and physical dating violence, perhaps this would be a safer world—not just in relationships, but in general. As it is, however, Doorways for Women and Children ...
NOVA Women's Center Penelope Trunk: Why I tweeted about my miscarriage.
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
When Penelope Trunk tweeted that she was sitting in a meeting having a miscarriage, she didn't expect the uproar that followed
NOVA Women's Center Rihanna: " I will say that to any young girl who is going through domestic violence, don't react off of love. F love."
Source: abcnews.go.com
Rihanna sats down with ABC News' Diane Sawyer, revealing publicly for the first time what happened last February with singer and ex-boyfriend Chris Brown. The exclusive interview aired on "Good Morning America," Thursday, Nov. ...
NOVA Women's Center The Feminist Majority Foundation is looking for spring interns for their Arlington office. If you're interested, let us know and we'll send you the details.
Feminist Majority Foundation - Breaking News, Feminism from Affirmative Action to Sexual Harrassment
Source: feminist.org
The Feminist Majority Foundation works for social and political and economic equality for women by using research and education to reduce violence against women, promote abortion rights and birth control access, global women's rights. ...
Debbie Rosse Certainly worthy of MY time!
Annette Arnold You go girl
NOVA Women's Center Tomorrow is election day. Make sure your voice is heard--get out and vote!
Source: www.voterinfo.sbe.virginia.gov
NOVA Women's Center 2009 Global Gender Gap Report. World is making progress towards equality. United States is ranked #31. Are you surprised?
Source: www.weforum.org
Iceland (1) has claimed the top spot of the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index 2009 from Norway (3) which slipped to third position behind Finland (2). Sweden (4) completed the Nordic countries’ continued dominance of the top four. ...
NOVA Women's Center Legislation expands definition of hate crime to include attacks based on Gender, Disability, Gender Identity, or Sexual Orientation.
Source: www.whitehouse.gov
WhiteHouse.gov is the official web site for the White House and President Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States. This site is a source for information about the President, White House news and policies, White House history, and the federal government.
NOVA Women's Center JMU students speak up for feminism in the school newspaper.
Source: breezejmu.org
Do you believe in equality? Do you believe that people should be able to make decisions about their own bodies? Do you believe that men and women should be paid the same? If you answered yes, you just might be a feminist.
NOVA Women's Center Which movie did you see this weekend? Every ticket sold is a vote for who rules at the box office.
Source: www.washingtonpost.com
To earn her two Oscars, Hilary Swank went mano a mano with Clint Eastwood in a boxing ring and sucked face with Chloë Sevigny. But her toughest test yet might be this weekend, when box office numbers for "Amelia" come in. ...
NOVA Women's Center We're on Twitter now! http://twitter.com/NOVAWomenCenter
Source: twitter.com
Fostering an environment in which women of diverse backgrounds can best fulfill their personal, educational, and professional goals.
NOVA Women's Center In the news: In Guinea, Sexual Violence Fails To Silence Women
Source: www.npr.org
NPR's Ofeibea Quist-Arcton met with Guinean women brutally attacked during a political crackdown. Their attackers had turned the Guinean capital, Conakry, into a combat zone; sexual violence became a weapon of war to try to control them. But they remained determined to speak out.
