Bunch is currently Distinguished Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University and the Executive Director of the university's Center for Women's Global Leadership, which she founded in 1987. She is committed to ending oppression and violence against women in all its forms, including domestic abuse, economic exploitation, violence and discrimination against lesbians, and war crimes against women.

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Bunch has received numerous honors for her work. Among them are community service awards from the Lambda Legal Defense Fund (1982) and the National Lesbian and Gay Health Foundation (1986) and the White House Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Human Rights (1999). She is also a member of the National Women's Hall of Fame (1996).

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