This is why having a Women's Room on campus is so important. It is there that women can meet and organise, a room where they can feel empowered. The women who frequent the Women's Room have many diverse backgrounds and lifestyles. This diversity includes, age, race, culture, political beliefs, sexuality and religion. Many Women from different ethnic groups find the room to be a safe place to relax away from the masculine gaze.
ALL women are welcome.
The Women's Officer exists as an acknowledgment of the structural impediments to womens participation in education and society generally. The Womens Officer, together with the collective, organises educative campaigns on feminism and pertinent issues to women on campus such as safety, gender and the curriculum, women and racism, sexual assault, to name a few. The collective meets weekly to discuss issues and organise events and campaigns - all women are welcome to participate and meetings will be advertised in the Bullsheet. The Student Association also has a Women's Committee. Six women are nominated from the student body at a Student Association Council meeting to form the Committee which more or less acts as an Executive to the collective - i.e makes decisions on how to spend the budget, deals with daily business and finalises campaigns.