Women's Way

WOMEN’S WAY is working toward a Philadelphia region and beyond, where caring and mutual support guide the decisions that affect people’s lives, and where everyone – especially those historically impacted by gender inequities – has security, dignity, freedom, and joy.

Our Mission

WOMEN’S WAY achieves gender equity by building collective power to disrupt oppressive systems and strengthen alternative models centered in love, dignity, and liberation.

Values Statement

WOMEN’S WAY is committed to equity, power-building, self-determination, and liberation for all who are impacted by systems of gender, racial, and class oppression.

Our analysis is intersectional. Women and other gender-oppressed people bring their intersecting identities to their daily experience of being whole people. We believe that gender liberation can only be achieved in conjunction with race and class liberation. For these reasons, we are committed to:

Centering those most harmed by racialized patriarchy, including everyone on the margins of the definitions of womanhood and whiteness;

Dismantling white supremacy in our minds, programs, policies, practices, and culture and in the communities we are part of;

Ongoing learning at the individual and organizational level to expand awareness of the systemic causes of existing inequities at the individual and organizational level;

Relationship building to build mutual trust, create bridges of empathy that transcend racial, gender, class, and political divisions, foster collective learning, and inspire collective action;

Collective power-building by facilitating collective learning and investing in movement-building. We strengthen collective action – as the way to shift power and resources for the good of the whole, rather than for the benefit of the few; and

Building common cause with groups that center collective liberation around gender, race, class, and other sites of injustice.