What do people mean when they say that Neuroscience is a "female major"

[Anonymous]

Saw this in another thread and I'm curious. It seems like a pretty standard pre-med major and I've never heard of it referred to with a "gender label".

[Anonymous]

They just mean that it's more popular among girls. That's the same with psychology or bio-engineering or English. People talk about this in context of standing out.

[Anonymous]

Women are dominating college populations now and are the majority. Almost every major is a "female major" now, except for 2-3 outliers that are still majority male.

[Anonymous]

Neuroscience is basically psychology with a strong STEM/Biology component. A lot of females are drawn to psychology because they value relationships and people. The STEM/biology piece works for pre-med. For pre-med, it’s a lot easier than a biology or chemistry major.

[Anonymous]

I don’t know any male neuroscience majors.

[Anonymous]

I think this is all a myth. Men and women don't have disparate interests in academics. This is the same trope that tells us that women like to work as elementary school teachers while men like work as drywall hangers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Women are dominating college populations now and are the majority. Almost every major is a "female major" now, except for 2-3 outliers that are still majority male.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Neuroscience is basically psychology with a strong STEM/Biology component. A lot of females are drawn to psychology because they value relationships and people. The STEM/biology piece works for pre-med. For pre-med, it’s a lot easier than a biology or chemistry major.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Women are dominating college populations now and are the majority. Almost every major is a "female major" now, except for 2-3 outliers that are still majority male.

True, but psychology and neuroscience seems almost 100% women. Majors like history and English have bigger % of men.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Neuroscience is basically psychology with a strong STEM/Biology component. A lot of females are drawn to psychology because they value relationships and people. The STEM/biology piece works for pre-med. For pre-med, it’s a lot easier than a biology or chemistry major.

I disagree that it’s easier than biology and seems about the same as chemistry to me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Neuroscience is basically psychology with a strong STEM/Biology component. A lot of females are drawn to psychology because they value relationships and people. The STEM/biology piece works for pre-med. For pre-med, it’s a lot easier than a biology or chemistry major.

I disagree that it’s easier than biology and seems about the same as chemistry to me.

Chemistry is a hard major. Organic chemistry, physical chemistry...tough! Tons of lab time too (same for bio).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Neuroscience is basically psychology with a strong STEM/Biology component. A lot of females are drawn to psychology because they value relationships and people. The STEM/biology piece works for pre-med. For pre-med, it’s a lot easier than a biology or chemistry major.

I disagree that it’s easier than biology and seems about the same as chemistry to me.

Chemistry is a hard major. Organic chemistry, physical chemistry...tough! Tons of lab time too (same for bio).

I’m familiar-I still think neurobiology is an equally hard major to bio and about equal to chem. And at many places it requires orgo, btw, in addition to lots of anatomy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know any male neuroscience majors.

I do. He's now in med school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Neuroscience is basically psychology with a strong STEM/Biology component. A lot of females are drawn to psychology because they value relationships and people. The STEM/biology piece works for pre-med. For pre-med, it’s a lot easier than a biology or chemistry major.

What? The neuroscience major is extremely difficult. You have to take tons of chem (including organic), biology, physics, etc. Not for the faint of heart.

[Anonymous]

Ivy kid, overall has close to 50:50 females to males. The following stem majors have more females for the classes of 2027 and 2026:

-Biology, BioEngineering, chemE, molecular/materials science, chemistry, neuroscience, environmental science, environmental engineering. Even CS is 45% female.

There are even phD programs in some
Stem fields that have tipped in favor of females as far as the applicant pool, in the last 2 yrs. It will be more soon.