Women's Week 2025
About
This series of dynamic events, running from March 3-8, 2025, offers an exciting opportunity to engage with inspiring women’s voices across diverse fields. From networking mixers and cultural workshops to fitness challenges and dance performances, the week’s activities foster solidarity, promote women’s health, and celebrate the powerful contributions of women in various spheres. Be part of a transformative experience that elevates women's voices and challenges societal norms!
Audience
University students, faculty, and community members interested in community building, social justice, and women’s empowerment.
2025 Theme
Creating Communities of Care
Date
March 3 - 8, 2025
2025 Schedule
Monday, March 3, 2025
Craft Night Kickoff & Social
Time: 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Location: Union Ballroom
Description: Start Women’s Week with creativity and fun by attending our Craft Night Kickoff and Social! The evening will feature crafts and creative activities, opportunities to socialize and network, along with a welcome address and an overview of the week’s events to set the tone for a week of community, creativity, and empowerment.
Tuesday, March 4, 2025
Finance Barbie with the Financial Wellness Center
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Location: Saltair
Description: Join us for the Finance Barbie, where we'll explore the unique financial challenges women face, from societal money messages to the gender wage gap. Learn actionable steps for investing and retirement while enjoying tea and sweet treats.
Tuesday, March 4, 2025
Community at the Core: Driving Success for Women-Owned Businesses
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Location: Alumni House
Description: In building upon this year's Women's Week theme of Creating a Community of Care, this panel, luncheon, and business fair will feature successful alumnae business owners who have transformed their ideas into thriving enterprises. Join us for an insightful and engaging discussion focused on the power of community--both online and in-person--in supporting and growing businesses.
Cost: $15 (Free entry for students with discount code: STUDENT 15)
Wednesday, March 5, 2025
Sex Positive Barbie
Time: 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Location: Saltair
Description: Sex Positive Barbie explores the importance and intricacies of sexual health and relationships with the help of expert advice and guidance. Panelists from multi-faceted careers will discuss consent, health, safety, pleasure, and feelings of shame. Join us for a panelists's presentations and a Q&A on all things related to sexual wellness.
Wednesday, March 5, 2025
Sex Postive After Hours
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Location: Crimson View, Union 4th Floor
Description: Sex Positive After Hours opens the space for community members to explore the organizations on campus and in the great Salt Lake Community that are there to support sexual health services, mental health services, volunteer opportunities, and more. This is an informal event but a space where students and community members can socialize with the services targeted at health, relationships, safety, and consent.
Wednesday, March 5, 2025
International Women's Panel
Time: 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Location: Gardner Commons, Room 2900
Description: Join us for an engaging International Women's Panel where international and learning-abroad
students will share their unique experiences of studying abroad as women. The event
will kick off with a mixer of attendees to connect and engage in meaningful conversations
before the panel discussion begins.
Thursday, March 6, 2025
Empowering People with Menses Workshop
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Location: Collegiate, Union
Description: Join us in a workshop to Empower people who menstruate. You will gain awareness about premenstrual disorders, empowerment, in the journey to manage symptoms along with other challenges, and how to advocate for yourself and others who have PMDs. Light refreshments will be served.
Thursday, March 6, 2025
Panhellenic Council Presents: Women's Empowerment Speaker, Tina VanSteenbergen
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Union Ballroom
Description: The Panhellenic Council is sponsoring speaker, Tina VanSteenbergen, who has a passion and a purpose for working with women. She will deliver her keynote speech "Creating Confidence": Confidence has long been an expectation of women. And because we're just supposed to have it, we often speak about it as if it is easy: "Just be confident! It doesn't work that way! With the pressures put on us as women in college -- class, work, volunteering, studying, trying to stay healthy-- how could we possibly, simply be "confident"? Confidence is a journey, a long and at times treacherous hike. One with hills, valleys, twists, turns, and no map. While it's not easy, finding authentic confidence is possible-- if we work as a team.
Thursday, March 6, 2025
Strength in Stories: Crafting Your Financial Future
Time: 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Location: Union, Room 323
Description: Join us in celebrating Women's Week in partnership with the Center for Community & Cultural Engagement by using art to depict your financial wellness story! All are welcome! Light refreshments will be provided.
Thursday, March 6, 2025
Floral Design Class with UPC
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Location: Crimson View, Union 4th Floor
Description: Join us for a flower design class led by the owner of the Salt-Lake City-based and female-owned Native Floral Company. The class is limited to 100 people.
Thursday, March 6, 2025
Utah Women in Higher Education Network (UWHEN) Awards Dinner
Time: 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Location: Alumni House
Description: UWHEN is pleased to host this awards dinner in recognition of those who have supported and progressed women in higher education! The Linda K Amos Award will be presented. This dinner is for University of Utah staff and faculty only.
Friday, March 7, 2025
Campus-Wide Blood Drive
Time: 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Location: Ballroom, Union
Description: ARUP will present information about the culture of women in the healthcare industry in honor of Women’s Week which will be shown during the blood drive. All are encouraged to attend if medically and physically able.
Friday, March 7, 2025
Yoga
Time: 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Location: Saltair, Union
Description: Join our yoga/wellness event offering attendees an opportunity to relax and recuperate after a long week. This is a great opportunity for women and everyone interested to come together and celabrate the capabilities of each other and our bodies.
Monday-Friday, March 3-7, 2025
Resistencia Echoed Within Her: Women In Art Gallery
Time: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Location: CSAR Lounge (Union 411)
Description: Resistencia Echoed Within Her is a powerful tribute to women in art who have challenged societal norms, redefined identity, and used their art as a form of resistance. This gallery, part of Women’s Week, highlights the work of groundbreaking artists from diverse cultural backgrounds, including Mónica Mayer, Yayoi Kusama, Lina Iris Viktor, and many more. Through painting, photography, performance, and multimedia, these artists confront themes of feminism, activism, and self-expression. Visitors are invited to engage with works that defy expectations, celebrate resilience, and amplify the voices of women in art. Stop by CSAR anytime between 8am and 5pm during Women's Week to participate!
Free Virtual Backgrounds
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