She is a professor of Gender and Women's Same-Sex Relations Crossculturally at the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences at the University of Amsterdam.

She specializes in teaching, research and consults in the fields of human rights, sexuality, culture, cross-cultural lesbian relationships, feminist epistemology (theory of knowledge) and methodology (particularly ethnographic methods and oral history), gender and development theory, policy and planning (especially the development of indicators and monitoring of sexual policy), Women's sexology and HIV/AIDS.

[2] She has taught at various universities, both in the Netherlands and abroad in the field of women's and gender studies and sexuality.

Wieringa is currently the chair of Gender and Women's Same-sex Relations Crossculturally at the University of Amsterdam.

[2] Saskia Wieringa and Evelyn Blackwood have composed two anthologies about lesbian relationships.