Why the lack of men majoring in humanities?

[Anonymous]

Just looked through the ‘25 class decisions for a local school on Instagram. Of 13 humanities majors, only 2 are male. Anyone else see this? This must mean that men get a bump.

[Anonymous]

???

doesn't mean men get a bump. it just means most of them are not interested in humanities careers.

[Anonymous]

Women aren’t either. Numbers are low across the board.

[Anonymous]

I think people are learning that you can just skip a humanities degree and go straight to Starbucks. There is no reason to waste four years on a humanities degree before Starbucks employment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just looked through the ‘25 class decisions for a local school on Instagram. Of 13 humanities majors, only 2 are male. Anyone else see this? This must mean that men get a bump.

A bump in what?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think people are learning that you can just skip a humanities degree and go straight to Starbucks. There is no reason to waste four years on a humanities degree before Starbucks employment.

Don’t be surprised when idiots get elected to office.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think people are learning that you can just skip a humanities degree and go straight to Starbucks. There is no reason to waste four years on a humanities degree before Starbucks employment.

What? My degree is in the humanities. I make $275,000 a year working for Big Four accounting firm.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think people are learning that you can just skip a humanities degree and go straight to Starbucks. There is no reason to waste four years on a humanities degree before Starbucks employment.

This is so tiresome. I know many people who have a humanity degree who are well paid.

[Anonymous]

I think you can get a humanities degree online or meeting people. It doesn't take a specialist.

[Anonymous]

Many lawyers make a good living with their humanities degrees.

[Anonymous]

People with analytical skills and who can write. That is why the majority of the consultants we hire are humanities majors.

[Anonymous]

Two comments…first how many are profiled, because 13 humanities majors in total seems overall super low for even the private schools.

Second, every press release about job prospects shows STEM and quantitative liberal arts (e.g, Econ et al) faring the best, while art history and other humanities degrees faring the worst.

The “secret” about anyone with a high paying job from humanities is that they attended a top school.

So, study what you want at Harvard and you are still a candidate for top jobs in finance, consulting et al.

However, it’s a much tougher road as an art history major from Frostburg vs a technical major from Forstburg.

[Anonymous]

Boys are raised with the social expectation that they need to support their family. (And yes this is related to attracting a mate.) Girls are not. The question for me is why are there so many girls still attracted to the humanities, despite the economics? What aren’t we teaching them?

None of this is to suggest that the humanities should not be taught, even required. But I do think that girls excuse themselves from thinking through the economic implications of majoring in humanities in a way that boys do not. And that’s our fault.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Many lawyers make a good living with their humanities degrees.

So, you have to shell out a lot more money to make a good living with a humanities degree.

[Anonymous]

This isn't hard. A lot of boys just prefer math. They use a different part of their brains. Boys typically scorer higher in math than in English on the SATs.

Male thinking is generally black and white, which is what math is. While they may do well in humanities subjects, they aren't as interested in subjects that require introspection. They just want to do things, problem solve, not sit there and contemplate.

Of course, this is a generalization, but I think it's true for most boys.