Gender/Women’s Studies Major /App Strategy

[Anonymous]

Trust fund kid who doesn't need to work for a living and wants to major in Women's Studies.

I'm thinking Yale. Good fit.

Go for it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Trust fund kid who doesn't need to work for a living and wants to major in Women's Studies.

I'm thinking Yale. Good fit.

Go for it.

Yale or Harvard both sound perfect.

[Anonymous]

Women studies? I am a woman and I cringe. Please talk some sense into your child. Would we tell our sons to study Man Studies? It's nonsense. I understand a desire to focus on this (Im an executive in business that deals with BS from the patriarchy every day) but getting a degree IN IT is the wrong way. Get a degree in something that can be used to affect change and equality - law, software engineering, medicine, business- find a path where your child can affect change in mgmt., executive or advocacy positions with hard skills. That studies degree is worthless and she will be lucky to get a 40K a year job in DEI at a non-profit. It takes a pretty big trust fund to fund a 18 year old for life- I hope its got 8+ figures in it if she will never have to be self sufficient.

[Anonymous]

The vitriol here is astounding.

She might double major. There are plenty of “less employable” majors out there - get a grip, people. You all sound unhinged. It’s only a major.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The vitriol here is astounding.

She might double major. There are plenty of “less employable” majors out there - get a grip, people. You all sound unhinged. It’s only a major.

Agreed. Their family can afford it also.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I still don't understand how Women's Studies majors all got changed to Gender Studies or Gender and Sexuality was added to the name of the major. We still live in a patriarchal male-dominant society where women continue to fight hard to be heard and respected. It seems like it is one more way in which women get devalued or told they have to be more inclusive. Women's Study always included topics of race, gender, and sexuality.

So that transwomen can take over even more women's spaces.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The vitriol here is astounding.

She might double major. There are plenty of “less employable” majors out there - get a grip, people. You all sound unhinged. It’s only a major.

Agreed. Their family can afford it also.

Most importantly, she's passionate about the area of study. So much ignorance on this thread.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The vitriol here is astounding.

She might double major. There are plenty of “less employable” majors out there - get a grip, people. You all sound unhinged. It’s only a major.

Agreed. Their family can afford it also.

Most importantly, she's passionate about the area of study. So much ignorance on this thread.

An 18 YO trust fund baby from a DMV private school is “passionate’” about gender studies?

My god, have we failed these kids.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:She should go to the cheapest college possible if she's going to major in that. Otherwise she'll be saddled with student debt she'll never be able to pay off.

Full pay…trust from grandparents will fund all education for life. Thanks tho

Still, pick the cheapest school because she will need her trust to support her paltry income for the rest of her life and make sure she has something left for elder care.

Oh FFS! No one said that it's going to be her only degree or her terminal degree. My niece was a Women's Studies major, but wanted to go into medicine, to become an OB/Gyn. She is doing her residency (also picked up a MS from Harvard before starting it), but post Roe, has changed her specialty.

I don't think I'd feel comfortable going to a super woke doctor.

Of course you wouldn’t. You probably want one that would give you ivermectin to treat the rona.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The vitriol here is astounding.

She might double major. There are plenty of “less employable” majors out there - get a grip, people. You all sound unhinged. It’s only a major.

No it’s not only a major. It’s a lifestyle. And a demented one at that.

No way would I let my DD anywhere near this field of study

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Women studies? I am a woman and I cringe. Please talk some sense into your child. Would we tell our sons to study Man Studies? It's nonsense. I understand a desire to focus on this (Im an executive in business that deals with BS from the patriarchy every day) but getting a degree IN IT is the wrong way. Get a degree in something that can be used to affect change and equality - law, software engineering, medicine, business- find a path where your child can affect change in mgmt., executive or advocacy positions with hard skills. That studies degree is worthless and she will be lucky to get a 40K a year job in DEI at a non-profit. It takes a pretty big trust fund to fund a 18 year old for life- I hope its got 8+ figures in it if she will never have to be self sufficient.

Until recently, that was all biomedical studies, cell, animal and human... right down to, amazingly, the first study to determine whether hormone supplementation would be of benefit to menopausal women. Man Studies also includes virtually all safety studies -- from medicines, to chemicals, to crash test dummies, to stab vests, to PPE. It also includes design and engineering -- the size of phones and toilets, the spacing of keys on pianos, the temperature settings for building. Just to name a few.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The vitriol here is astounding.

She might double major. There are plenty of “less employable” majors out there - get a grip, people. You all sound unhinged. It’s only a major.

But the vitriol is interesting cause:

1) It was posted in the middle of the night (suggesting the posters are not local); and
2) They’re so worked up by what some random kid somewhere wants to major in that they response so angrily. It’s like they’re threatened or something.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The vitriol here is astounding.

She might double major. There are plenty of “less employable” majors out there - get a grip, people. You all sound unhinged. It’s only a major.

No it’s not only a major. It’s a lifestyle. And a demented one at that.

No way would I let my DD anywhere near this field of study

Your anger over this is really quite remarkable. You sound so incredibly triggered and threatened. Go watch more NewsMax or something- it sounds like you need a safe space.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Women studies? I am a woman and I cringe. Please talk some sense into your child. Would we tell our sons to study Man Studies? It's nonsense. I understand a desire to focus on this (Im an executive in business that deals with BS from the patriarchy every day) but getting a degree IN IT is the wrong way. Get a degree in something that can be used to affect change and equality - law, software engineering, medicine, business- find a path where your child can affect change in mgmt., executive or advocacy positions with hard skills. That studies degree is worthless and she will be lucky to get a 40K a year job in DEI at a non-profit. It takes a pretty big trust fund to fund a 18 year old for life- I hope its got 8+ figures in it if she will never have to be self sufficient.

Until recently, that was all biomedical studies, cell, animal and human... right down to, amazingly, the first study to determine whether hormone supplementation would be of benefit to menopausal women. Man Studies also includes virtually all safety studies -- from medicines, to chemicals, to crash test dummies, to stab vests, to PPE. It also includes design and engineering -- the size of phones and toilets, the spacing of keys on pianos, the temperature settings for building. Just to name a few.

Thank you for posting actual data vs. the empty-headed reactionary ideologues.

[Anonymous]

My wife was a Women’s Studies major, she makes $150k a year.

Any of the Seven Sisters are good for this. Scripps. Harvard. Brown. Middlebury.

The real answer here is for her to find scholars and authors she likes in the field and go where they teach, especially if she is interested in the MA or PhD later. Those are going to be her advisors.

Avoid flagship publics in Red States, those professors are leaving the second they get another job as the departments are under attack.

You may also want to look at other programs that have a gender studies focus like Film or English, it’s common to incorporate other disciplines into the major.