Honey, some of college majors are the biggest scams in these corporations. You'll graduate with that degree then look for a job as a waitress or take a bar-tending course, that's in not a stripping course coz strippers make shit tons of money.
That depends on what's your definition of "hot strippers", believe it or not, being a stripper is not about hotness, the hotness of a stripper is that connection the stripper makes with her moves, energy, eye contact, style and personality! I have read a lot about and saw documentaries, a lot of pretty sippers couldn't be successful ones.
Again, when you go peruse some college degree, ask yourself, what kinda jobs you'd have for getting that degree? Look at other people with similar degrees and see what they have achieved. This "Women Studies" degree sounds like something you'd use in academia, that means you probably won't be able to get a teaching job with that degree unless you have a PhD in the same kinda studies. P. S I'm a professor and I'm going to quit my job and start my own independent business coz that's how this world works, that's the way if you wanted to do better financially and own your life (and enjoy it) plus save money for your kids and grand kids. I won't be able to do all of that if I stayed in academia, unfortunately.
Everyone on gag is a professor or a lawyer or a scientist when they need to legitimise and add credibility to their argument. It's the internet equivalent of "my uncle is a lawyer so I know what I'm talking about"
After taking a Gender Studies course in college, I have to say that it is not legitimate. This may have just been a bad experience, but being one of 3 guys in the 30+ student class, it was obvious the teacher simply disliked guys, and often pitted the girls against us.
It also seems like the only job you can get with a gender studies degree is a teacher who teaches gender studies, which seems like a useless cycle to me.
Many people who pursue women's studies go on to become counselors and psychologists for sexual assault and rape victims... so yes absolutely. You need to look at the bigger picture after the degree is earned.
right, because that's obviously not how you get an echo chamber full of confirmation bias. nobody better to talk to some woman who THINKS she was abused, than someone who spent four years in college learning about how women are always right and should never be questioned or doubted.
wouldn't psychology be a more appropriate degree here? I don't think gender studies qualifies you to to give psychiatric advice and asses mental conditions. An untrained psychologist is a dangerous thing.
No; I've also never had my eyeballs gouged out with a melon baller, and I don't need to have personal experience with that activity in order to judge how useful or pleasant it would be.
female and male specific psychology exist as specialisations already (just like child psychology). If women's studies had any use here why is it not a suggested minor? psychology places a lot of weight on helping people deal with their own problems which is somewhat opposed to feminist philosophy.
It's a Mickey Mouse degree that will end up in a pile of debt for the unfortunates who study it, and will not improve their prospects of a job in the slightest.
A complete joke. On the people who take the course.
Posh people study Ovid and Homer, what bloody use is Latin and Greek, ancient, not modern,? The only time you're ever going to need Latin is if somebody were to invent a time machine, and yet, it's perfectly respectable to do "Classics", so why not allow " Gender Studies"?
Who is trying to prevent gender studies. The classics are great if your going on to be an archaeologist or historian. I think too many people take gender studies and end up working in subway. Only wealthy people can really afford education for its own sake.
Do we really need history and archeology? We could use a cure for cancer or AIDS, a passenger jet that can fly from London to Melbourn in under an you're would be useful, a way of stirring grain cheaply without it spoiling could prevent famine, diving up a load of Roman coins and a broken oil lamp is about as much use as another book about Marry Wolstoncroft, there are people who give a shit, but not many.
A lot of degrees aren't valid. A few years back a political rep for education apologized to students in a public statement regarding an arts degree that had been pushed a lot that had no value or merit to it.
Would you say there's a direct correlation to gender/women's studies and the pay gap because women who take gender/women's studies disagree as to it being a major cause of them getting 70cents for every dollar a man gets lol.
@HungLikeAHorsefly @DonkeyRick69 Let me clarify. I was not saying this particular major is specifically responsible for the gender wage gap, but rather that the frivolous majors many women choose in general are a very significant contributing factor. And that is just a fact...
@HungLikeAHorsefly @DonkeyRick69 Frivolous majors are a bad idea for anyone who wants to have even a moderately lucrative career, and gender and women's studies is about as useless as they come. Women choose useless majors significantly more that men do. That's a well known and documented statistical fact that contributes substantially to the gender wage gap. Horsefly, you are doing women no favors by denying it.
There are a ton of issues with what this AEI article is saying. Nonetheless, the wage gap studies that have been done note a gap in pay for people in the *same* field. Although, it isn't nearly as bad as the 77 cents on the dollar claim a lot of people make. It's closer to 93 cents to the dollar.
@HungLikeAHorsefly What specifically are those "tons of issues" you refer to? Are you suggesting that the gender / college major statistics are not accurate? Those statistics are the crux of the problem here.
@HungLikeAHorsefly And no, the statistic most often quoted by feminists is the 77% figure, and it is based on the earnings of all men and women regardless of field. You're right that the true figure is much closer to 93% but the difference can be easily explained away by differences like experience, time in the workforce, hours worked, different priorities driving employer and job choices, etc.
No, the 7% difference exists when you take all of those things into account. Do you really think studies on the issue wouldn't address those obvious issues?
The biggest and most glaring issue with the AEI study is just that - the studies done that conclude there is a wage gap are analyzing men and women in the same industries. That is, the claim isn't that women make less *in general*, it's that they make less in comparable jobs. For example, they're claiming a female mechanical engineer is likely to make less than a male mechanical engineer. That fact completely invalidates the conclusion the AEI makes.
Another issue is that no information is given about the popularity of each major. As it happens, the more remunerative majors pay a lot simply because very, very few people actually graduate with those degrees. Take Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering for example. Yes, it's 97% male, but it also accounts for less than 0.01% of all college degrees per year. [...]
[...] Even if the numbers were reversed and it was 97% women, this isn't nearly enough to solve the problem of the wage gap. It's just wishful thinking at that point.
The last obvious problem with the AEI study is the claim at the bottom that economists will tell you it's women's choices that explain the problem - very few economists say that.
"No, the 7% difference exists when you take all of those things into account. Do you really think studies on the issue wouldn't address those obvious issues?"
Yes, I really do. Please show me the studies you are referring to that control for all those factors and still show a 7% difference. I will list them again for your convenience: differences in experience, time in the workforce, hours worked per week, different priorities driving employer and job choices.
Damn dude, expecting an immediate answer on a Friday night is a bit naive. Anyhoo...
Altonji and Blank, "Race and Gender in the Labor Market" www.econ.yale.edu/.../altonji%20and%20blank.pdf They control for occupation, education, experience, region, parental status, time in industry, hours worked per week, government vs. non-governmental employers, job choices and other personal issues. They find that there is a wage gap of about 6.6% among those in the same industries and that none of the above factors explain the gap.
Wood, Corcoran, Courant, "Pay Differences Among the Highly Paid" www.jstor.org/.../2535080 Controls for occupation, age, education, experience, parental status, hours worked per week, time in the workforce, grades in college, and other things. Found a wage gap of about 18% that isn't explained by the above factors.
Government Accountability Office, "Work Patterns Partially Explain Differences Between Men's and Women's Earnings" http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-04-35 Controls for education, experience, time in industry, occupation, hours worked per week, marital status, race and parental status. Found a wage gap of 20% that isn't explained by the factors above.
Boraas and Rogers, "How Does Gender Play a Role in the Earnings Gap?" https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2003/03/art2full.pdf Found a wage gap that isn't explained by education, industry, experience, race, parental status, marital status, hours worked per week, region, city size, union membership or governmental vs. non-governmental employment.
Rey and Hill, "Behind the Pay Gap" http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED496176.pdf Finds that there is a 20% wage gap that isn't explained by occupation, industry, hours worked per week, workplace flexibility, telecommuting, working multiple jobs, time at the current employer, time in industry, experience, parental status and marital status
@HungLikeAHorsefly Perhaps I should have specified current studies; all the ones you cited are out of date and clearly do NOT adequately control for all the important variables. Allow me to help with that. Here's one that is not only more recent but also compares younger men and women in the age group whose earnings would actually be reflective of today's conditions using government data. It found that the median full-time salaries of young women are 8% HIGHER than those of men in their peer group, and as much as 17% higher in some areas. Interesting how different the results are when there is no bias, huh?
@DonkyRick69 Yes, my momma would have been able to provide proof for things she said.
Also, it is interesting that there are scores of studies that say there is a wage gap, and you supposedly found one study that says otherwise. Where did you get the idea that multiple peer reviewed scholarly studies are somehow biased yet some random stuff you can't even substantiate isn't?
@DonkeyRick69 Do you understand what peer review is, or how science works in the United States? I ask because it doesn't sound like you do.
If a study is peer reviewed, it means it's been thoroughly analyzed anonymously by someone who is just as much an expert as those who wrote it but who doesn't work at that college and who has no interest in helping the authors of the study (they are often interested in proving the authors wrong, in fact). After that review, studies go through a second review with the greater community at large, which includes everyone in the field.
So... you're saying that somehow hundreds of colleges and universities have the same ideology and even though they benefit greatly if they prove one another wrong, they don't for some reason? Don't say they're doing it for the research funding because in the social sciences that's almost non-existent.
@HungLikeAHorsefly how very elitist of you. Next will you pretend you care about the starving poor children by feeding them the scraps from your dinner table like all the other bobos?
@DonkeyRick69 It's elitist of me to point out that I have direct experience with something you have an incorrect opinion on? What do you do for a living? How about I tell you about what I think of what you do for a living, and then call you an elitist for correcting me if I'm wrong?
@HungLikeAHorsefly it's elitist for you to pull out your diploma and dismiss the opions of others because you regurgitated another's work for a college essay.
@DonkeyRick69 I haven't mentioned my education, what it's in or what I did to get it. I said that I worked in academia and therefore I'm in a better position than you are to know what goes on there.
You, on the other hand, made a whole bunch of assumptions. You're disparaging a profession of which you obviously don't know anything about. It's not elitist to point that out - it's simply a fact.
@HungLikeAHorsefly "i worked in academia " a lot of people work in academia and have options that differ from yours, as they say science is not done by consensus
If calling bullshit on people who say false things (aka lying) and who form strong opinions on things they know nothing about is elitist, then yep, that's me.
Society thinks they are valid degrees. My personal opinion is that a Women's Studies degree is not valid unless the school also offers a Men's studies degrees, since Feminism, is about, well equality... or is it not? Gender Studies is not a valid degree in my opinion because I believe that there are only two genders, male and female.
I would say it's a valid degree to get, but it's not useful and not as notable as other degrees. Like what can you really do with that? It's not really a practical degree.
well, it's an actual degree. but, much like majoring in philosophy, you don't really stand to make a living off of it unless you get at least a master's and teach it.
They are not valid degrees, Janice Fiamengo, Jordan Peterson, and Ben Shapiro have some great arguments as to why, but it's essentially because they are lies and bullshit that have more in common with religion than they do with reality.
If you are wealthy, go ahead and waste your money. If you are like the rest of us how about a nice marketable degree in nursing, occupational and physical therapy, pharmacy, nuclear medicine or engineering.
... uh... If anything you're single handedly making such a degree more valid with this regergitation of trollbait memes. Coming from someone who doesn't have or want such a degree, finds the lessons of most women's studies courses somewhere between laughable to cringy, and is pretty disgusted by popular modern "feminism".
To the anonymous downvoter, would you mind explaining why you think I'm wrong? I'm serious. The subjects seem to fall under the aegis of Anthropology, and I don't see what makes them merit being subjects of their own. (Now that I think about, ISTR that my sister's senior thesis in Anthro dealt with the role of women in... something.)
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Honey, some of college majors are the biggest scams in these corporations. You'll graduate with that degree then look for a job as a waitress or take a bar-tending course, that's in not a stripping course coz strippers make shit tons of money.
Hot strippers do but they have a career as a stripper has a shelf life 18-30. Honey lol?
That depends on what's your definition of "hot strippers", believe it or not, being a stripper is not about hotness, the hotness of a stripper is that connection the stripper makes with her moves, energy, eye contact, style and personality! I have read a lot about and saw documentaries, a lot of pretty sippers couldn't be successful ones.
Dude if it's the f-squad on a Monday morning you'd see how wrong you are
I didn't express that opinion from vacuum, it was based on studies and many articles I read and documentaries I saw.
Experience trumps studies etc
Again, when you go peruse some college degree, ask yourself, what kinda jobs you'd have for getting that degree? Look at other people with similar degrees and see what they have achieved. This "Women Studies" degree sounds like something you'd use in academia, that means you probably won't be able to get a teaching job with that degree unless you have a PhD in the same kinda studies. P. S I'm a professor and I'm going to quit my job and start my own independent business coz that's how this world works, that's the way if you wanted to do better financially and own your life (and enjoy it) plus save money for your kids and grand kids. I won't be able to do all of that if I stayed in academia, unfortunately.
Everyone on gag is a professor or a lawyer or a scientist when they need to legitimise and add credibility to their argument. It's the internet equivalent of "my uncle is a lawyer so I know what I'm talking about"
Well, I'm a professor and a Fulbright scholar if that makes it any better, donkey!
After taking a Gender Studies course in college, I have to say that it is not legitimate. This may have just been a bad experience, but being one of 3 guys in the 30+ student class, it was obvious the teacher simply disliked guys, and often pitted the girls against us.
It also seems like the only job you can get with a gender studies degree is a teacher who teaches gender studies, which seems like a useless cycle to me.
Many people who pursue women's studies go on to become counselors and psychologists for sexual assault and rape victims... so yes absolutely. You need to look at the bigger picture after the degree is earned.
right, because that's obviously not how you get an echo chamber full of confirmation bias. nobody better to talk to some woman who THINKS she was abused, than someone who spent four years in college learning about how women are always right and should never be questioned or doubted.
wouldn't psychology be a more appropriate degree here? I don't think gender studies qualifies you to to give psychiatric advice and asses mental conditions. An untrained psychologist is a dangerous thing.
@androcentrist Have you ever taken a class in women's studies?
@Smegskull Except for people who want to specialize in counseling women. It is important to be knowledgeable in feminist ideas.
No; I've also never had my eyeballs gouged out with a melon baller, and I don't need to have personal experience with that activity in order to judge how useful or pleasant it would be.
female and male specific psychology exist as specialisations already (just like child psychology). If women's studies had any use here why is it not a suggested minor?
psychology places a lot of weight on helping people deal with their own problems which is somewhat opposed to feminist philosophy.
No, I don't.
It's a Mickey Mouse degree that will end up in a pile of debt for the unfortunates who study it, and will not improve their prospects of a job in the slightest.
A complete joke. On the people who take the course.
Posh people study Ovid and Homer, what bloody use is Latin and Greek, ancient, not modern,? The only time you're ever going to need Latin is if somebody were to invent a time machine, and yet, it's perfectly respectable to do "Classics", so why not allow " Gender Studies"?
Who is trying to prevent gender studies. The classics are great if your going on to be an archaeologist or historian. I think too many people take gender studies and end up working in subway. Only wealthy people can really afford education for its own sake.
Do we really need history and archeology? We could use a cure for cancer or AIDS, a passenger jet that can fly from London to Melbourn in under an you're would be useful, a way of stirring grain cheaply without it spoiling could prevent famine, diving up a load of Roman coins and a broken oil lamp is about as much use as another book about Marry Wolstoncroft, there are people who give a shit, but not many.
Your probably right but a well paying career or flipping burgers?
A lot of degrees aren't valid.
A few years back a political rep for education apologized to students in a public statement regarding an arts degree that had been pushed a lot that had no value or merit to it.
Did he repay the students loans?
nope.
He can jamm his apology up his rectum lol
that's what the students said.
no its an absolute joke. No person I could respect goes to school for that.
What majors do you like?
even my major is garbage which is history. I used to do biology. I think any stem major is advantageous.
... Nope. Lol. I'm sorry but I just don't see any of this as terribly valuable degree wise.
Gender and women's studies degrees are one of the biggest reasons women earn less than men. They are utterly worthless.
Would you say there's a direct correlation to gender/women's studies and the pay gap because women who take gender/women's studies disagree as to it being a major cause of them getting 70cents for every dollar a man gets lol.
Yeah, no. That's not true even a little bit.
@HungLikeAHorsefly @DonkeyRick69 Let me clarify. I was not saying this particular major is specifically responsible for the gender wage gap, but rather that the frivolous majors many women choose in general are a very significant contributing factor. And that is just a fact...
www.aei.org/.../
@HungLikeAHorsefly @DonkeyRick69 Frivolous majors are a bad idea for anyone who wants to have even a moderately lucrative career, and gender and women's studies is about as useless as they come. Women choose useless majors significantly more that men do. That's a well known and documented statistical fact that contributes substantially to the gender wage gap. Horsefly, you are doing women no favors by denying it.
There are a ton of issues with what this AEI article is saying. Nonetheless, the wage gap studies that have been done note a gap in pay for people in the *same* field. Although, it isn't nearly as bad as the 77 cents on the dollar claim a lot of people make. It's closer to 93 cents to the dollar.
@HungLikeAHorsefly What specifically are those "tons of issues" you refer to? Are you suggesting that the gender / college major statistics are not accurate? Those statistics are the crux of the problem here.
@HungLikeAHorsefly And no, the statistic most often quoted by feminists is the 77% figure, and it is based on the earnings of all men and women regardless of field. You're right that the true figure is much closer to 93% but the difference can be easily explained away by differences like experience, time in the workforce, hours worked, different priorities driving employer and job choices, etc.
No, the 7% difference exists when you take all of those things into account. Do you really think studies on the issue wouldn't address those obvious issues?
The biggest and most glaring issue with the AEI study is just that - the studies done that conclude there is a wage gap are analyzing men and women in the same industries. That is, the claim isn't that women make less *in general*, it's that they make less in comparable jobs. For example, they're claiming a female mechanical engineer is likely to make less than a male mechanical engineer. That fact completely invalidates the conclusion the AEI makes.
Another issue is that no information is given about the popularity of each major. As it happens, the more remunerative majors pay a lot simply because very, very few people actually graduate with those degrees. Take Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering for example. Yes, it's 97% male, but it also accounts for less than 0.01% of all college degrees per year. [...]
[...] Even if the numbers were reversed and it was 97% women, this isn't nearly enough to solve the problem of the wage gap. It's just wishful thinking at that point.
The last obvious problem with the AEI study is the claim at the bottom that economists will tell you it's women's choices that explain the problem - very few economists say that.
@HungLikeAHorsefly
"No, the 7% difference exists when you take all of those things into account. Do you really think studies on the issue wouldn't address those obvious issues?"
Yes, I really do. Please show me the studies you are referring to that control for all those factors and still show a 7% difference. I will list them again for your convenience: differences in experience, time in the workforce, hours worked per week, different priorities driving employer and job choices.
I'll wait...
Still waiting...
@HungLikeAHorsefly
Damn dude, expecting an immediate answer on a Friday night is a bit naive. Anyhoo...
Altonji and Blank, "Race and Gender in the Labor Market"
www.econ.yale.edu/.../altonji%20and%20blank.pdf
They control for occupation, education, experience, region, parental status, time in industry, hours worked per week, government vs. non-governmental employers, job choices and other personal issues. They find that there is a wage gap of about 6.6% among those in the same industries and that none of the above factors explain the gap.
Wood, Corcoran, Courant, "Pay Differences Among the Highly Paid"
www.jstor.org/.../2535080
Controls for occupation, age, education, experience, parental status, hours worked per week, time in the workforce, grades in college, and other things. Found a wage gap of about 18% that isn't explained by the above factors.
Government Accountability Office, "Work Patterns Partially Explain Differences Between Men's and Women's Earnings"
http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-04-35
Controls for education, experience, time in industry, occupation, hours worked per week, marital status, race and parental status. Found a wage gap of 20% that isn't explained by the factors above.
Boraas and Rogers, "How Does Gender Play a Role in the Earnings Gap?"
https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2003/03/art2full.pdf
Found a wage gap that isn't explained by education, industry, experience, race, parental status, marital status, hours worked per week, region, city size, union membership or governmental vs. non-governmental employment.
Rey and Hill, "Behind the Pay Gap"
http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED496176.pdf
Finds that there is a 20% wage gap that isn't explained by occupation, industry, hours worked per week, workplace flexibility, telecommuting, working multiple jobs, time at the current employer, time in industry, experience, parental status and marital status
There are many others.
@HungLikeAHorsefly Perhaps I should have specified current studies; all the ones you cited are out of date and clearly do NOT adequately control for all the important variables. Allow me to help with that. Here's one that is not only more recent but also compares younger men and women in the age group whose earnings would actually be reflective of today's conditions using government data. It found that the median full-time salaries of young women are 8% HIGHER than those of men in their peer group, and as much as 17% higher in some areas. Interesting how different the results are when there is no bias, huh?
Ah, then you can provide some links. Or, if you don't have the xper, a citation.
@HungLikeAHorsefly your momma.
@DonkyRick69 Yes, my momma would have been able to provide proof for things she said.
Also, it is interesting that there are scores of studies that say there is a wage gap, and you supposedly found one study that says otherwise. Where did you get the idea that multiple peer reviewed scholarly studies are somehow biased yet some random stuff you can't even substantiate isn't?
@HungLikeAHorsefly multiple peer reviewed scholarly studies reflect the ideology of the college doing rather than facts.
@DonkeyRick69 Do you understand what peer review is, or how science works in the United States? I ask because it doesn't sound like you do.
If a study is peer reviewed, it means it's been thoroughly analyzed anonymously by someone who is just as much an expert as those who wrote it but who doesn't work at that college and who has no interest in helping the authors of the study (they are often interested in proving the authors wrong, in fact). After that review, studies go through a second review with the greater community at large, which includes everyone in the field.
So... you're saying that somehow hundreds of colleges and universities have the same ideology and even though they benefit greatly if they prove one another wrong, they don't for some reason? Don't say they're doing it for the research funding because in the social sciences that's almost non-existent.
@HungLikeAHorsefly colleges in America are more about political correctness and ideology than actual research. Anyone who breaks ranks is shot down
@DonkeyRick69 Yeah, no. That's not really how it works. Are you in college? Do you know what you're talking about?
@HungLikeAHorsefly we all know how the results of studies are really determined by green backs.
@DonkeyRick69 Ah, so you don't actually know what you're talking about. Didn't think so.
@HungLikeAHorsefly in your opinion mostly because your confined in your echo chamber
And you, yours. The only difference is that I've actually worked in academia.
@HungLikeAHorsefly how very elitist of you. Next will you pretend you care about the starving poor children by feeding them the scraps from your dinner table like all the other bobos?
@DonkeyRick69 It's elitist of me to point out that I have direct experience with something you have an incorrect opinion on? What do you do for a living? How about I tell you about what I think of what you do for a living, and then call you an elitist for correcting me if I'm wrong?
@HungLikeAHorsefly it's elitist for you to pull out your diploma and dismiss the opions of others because you regurgitated another's work for a college essay.
"How about I tell you about what I think of what you do for a living" that is totally elitist.
@DonkeyRick69 I haven't mentioned my education, what it's in or what I did to get it. I said that I worked in academia and therefore I'm in a better position than you are to know what goes on there.
You, on the other hand, made a whole bunch of assumptions. You're disparaging a profession of which you obviously don't know anything about. It's not elitist to point that out - it's simply a fact.
@HungLikeAHorsefly "i worked in academia " a lot of people work in academia and have options that differ from yours, as they say science is not done by consensus
I doubt that. Pointing out that science uses the peer review system, and how that system works isn't an "opinion".
I have to admit, I'm still real curious what your profession is...
@HungLikeAHorsefly yeah it was peer review when Galileo was around too
No, it wasn't. It's not even a little bit like that. You're really clueless on this topic.
@HungLikeAHorsefly because I don't have your privledged background?
@DonkeyRick69 because everything you're saying about it is incorrect and it's highly likely you have no experience with this topic.
@HungLikeAHorsefly yep that sounds like an elitist. Are you also a white liberal?
If calling bullshit on people who say false things (aka lying) and who form strong opinions on things they know nothing about is elitist, then yep, that's me.
Society thinks they are valid degrees. My personal opinion is that a Women's Studies degree is not valid unless the school also offers a Men's studies degrees, since Feminism, is about, well equality... or is it not?
Gender Studies is not a valid degree in my opinion because I believe that there are only two genders, male and female.
I would say it's a valid degree to get, but it's not useful and not as notable as other degrees. Like what can you really do with that? It's not really a practical degree.
well, it's an actual degree. but, much like majoring in philosophy, you don't really stand to make a living off of it unless you get at least a master's and teach it.
They are not valid degrees, Janice Fiamengo, Jordan Peterson, and Ben Shapiro have some great arguments as to why, but it's essentially because they are lies and bullshit that have more in common with religion than they do with reality.
If you are wealthy, go ahead and waste your money. If you are like the rest of us how about a nice marketable degree in nursing, occupational and physical therapy, pharmacy, nuclear medicine or engineering.
... uh... If anything you're single handedly making such a degree more valid with this regergitation of trollbait memes.
Coming from someone who doesn't have or want such a degree, finds the lessons of most women's studies courses somewhere between laughable to cringy, and is pretty disgusted by popular modern "feminism".
It's just a question
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#Bless
just do something usefull, like me who paint stuff i don't have a job but can make a few bucks selling stuff online AND didn't take taxpayers money :D
And the women who major in gender studies make great servers at your nearest restaurant. lmao!!!
I'm going to say yes. non-standard ideas need a place to grow and be nurtured. not everything that comes out of women's studies is bad for society.
but I agree like a lot of traditional roles women fill it is a martar degree. better for society than for the women taking it
I don't get why they're majors instead of being including in Anthropology.
To the anonymous downvoter, would you mind explaining why you think I'm wrong? I'm serious. The subjects seem to fall under the aegis of Anthropology, and I don't see what makes them merit being subjects of their own. (Now that I think about, ISTR that my sister's senior thesis in Anthro dealt with the role of women in... something.)
Comes no where near my B. Sc. in chemistry, my M. Sc. in physical chemistry and my current Ph. D. program in applied mathematics :)