性别研究是一门跨学科的学术计划，旨在研究将性别作为一种社会，文化和心理现象进行的建构以及各种意识形态，这些意识形态支撑着不同社会随着时间的推移在“男人”和“女人”类别之间所做出的区分。 “作为研究领域，性别研究考虑性别作为一种社会和文化结构如何影响人们的生活，他们的关系，工作场所，体制结构，公共政策和知识的产生。它还调查了事件，技术和政府政策对男人和女人的不同影响。对性别的研究有助于拓宽对文化和身份，性别与种族，阶级和性行为，健康和身体政治，地区和环境，民族主义和公民身份的了解。
Gender Studies is an interdisciplinary academic program that examines the construction of gender as a social, cultural, and psychological phenomenon and the various ideologies that underpin the distinctions that different societies over time have made between the categories of ''man'' and ''woman.'' As a field of inquiry, Gender Studies considers how gender as a social and cultural construction shapes people's lives, their relationships, the workplace, institutional structures, public policy, and the production of knowledge. It also investigates the different impact of events, technologies, and government policies on men and women. The study of gender helps to broaden understandings of culture and identity, the intersection of gender with race, class, and sexuality, health and body politics, region and environment, nationalism, and citizenship.