Why the lack of men majoring in humanities?

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Anonymous wrote:so you had to shell out more money to get a law degree after your humanities undergrad degree.

Again, please tell us about how non-humanities majors can magically become lawyers without getting a law degree!

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My DS put undecided on IG and is now a history major.

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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.

They need to pay their bills?

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The men have the support women studying communications or women not being strategic about career choices (as the woman earlier said).

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Anonymous wrote:The men have the support women studying communications or women not being strategic about career choices (as the woman earlier said).

It’s flipped the other way now. Young women are more successful than young men and must support them Look at the rise of NEETs.

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Anonymous wrote:What’s been left out of this is most STEM majors don’t work in their field either. They also become lawyers or get their MBA or whatever — which they never needed their STEM majors for. Or, their work is ultimately unrelated to their major as well.

? cite source.

Yeah...I'm not sure it's fair to say that most STEM majors don't work in their field.

At UPenn they say 34% of engineering grads don't work directly in their field (with many going into finance/fin tech/consulting etc.). However, a CS kid may go work for a hedge fund writing trading algorithms...which is still fairly related to their major.

In any event, 34% is many, but obviously not most.

Yes, & in that 34% they include engineers who go on to med school. Still stem, and more and more engineering undergraduate training is very relevant to medical careers (procedure based fields, interventional rads, cards, ortho.). More tech added to med school and residency training every year)

CS and engineering is not “most” STEM majors. Are we forgetting all those jobless bio, neuroscience, physics, and environmental science majors?