SDG 5
Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
Key Stats
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First-Generation Women:
1,586 new students are first-generation women who joined us in 2022/23—a milestone in access. -
Senior Academic Staff:
390 women now lead as senior academic staff (2022/23). -
STEM Graduates:
Nearly 40% of STEM graduates in 2023 were women. -
Medicine Graduates:
Women made up 75% of Medicine graduates in 2023. -
Arts & Humanities/Social Sciences Graduates:
63% of Arts & Humanities/Social Sciences graduates in 2023 were women.
Source: Statistics from Performance, Analytics and Institutional Research (PAIR)
Application, Admission and Entry Rates at the University of Alberta from 2016-2023:
The graph titled Application, Admission and Entry Rates at the University of Alberta from 2016-2023 systematically measures women and men’s application rates, admittance rates, and registration rates from 2016 to 2024.
research impact
For the period 2018-2022
№ relevant publications: 1,443
№ times cited: 12,392
Source: InCites
Sample Courses
- WGS 390 - Environmental Feminisms and Social Justice
- AUPOL 355 - Gender and Politics
- POL S 441 - Gender and Public Policy
- NS 362 - Indigenous Women
Videos
Institutional Stewardship Initiatives
Mentorship for women in STEM
University of Alberta Women in Science and Engineering (UA-WiSE) is a student group that supports all undergraduate students underrepresented in STEM fields. Women in Science, Engineering & Research (WiSER) is a group of graduate students and early-career professionals who support the retention and advancement of women and underrepresented groups in STEM.
Together, they run a mentorship program to connect students with mentors in academia and industry. This unique, eight-month program brings together mentorship trios of one undergrad student, one graduate student and one experienced professional. Mentors help develop students’ professional skills, such as professional conduct, negotiation and healthy work-life balance.
Non-Discrimination for Transgender and Gender-Diverse People
The University of Alberta has a non-discrimination policy that fosters and protects a respectful environment for work, study and living and supports dignity and equity for all members of the University of Alberta.
Women and Children's Health Research Institute
The Women and Children’s Health Research Institute (WCHRI) supports research excellence dedicated to improving the health and lives of women and children. WCHRI is the only research institute in Canada to focus on both women’s and children’s health, including perinatal health*.
*We use a broad and inclusive definition of women’s health research, incorporating both sex as a biological variable and gender as a social variable, across the life course. We include people assigned female at birth, all people who identify as women (cis and trans inclusive), as well as gender diverse individuals who do not identify as women but who share health challenges in common with women. (from CIHR IGH, 2024)
Research institutes, centres & projects
Intersections of Gender
A Signature Area of Research and Teaching at the University of Alberta, Intersections of Gender is an academic hub focused on promoting intersectional gender research, supporting interdisciplinary research collaborations, growing inclusive mentorship and teaching and engaging communities across all sectors on gender and intersectionality.
iSMSS
The Institute for Sexual Minority Studies and Services (iSMSS) conducts timely and often pressing research focused on helping sexual and gender minority youth mediate life in family, school, healthcare and other environments. iSMSS research is intended to advance inclusive policy making as a protective basis for framing and engaging in ethical and informed educational, healthcare, other institutional and community/cultural practices.