Gender/Women’s Studies Major /App Strategy

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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.

What a great point. So well put.

I noticed this with the COVID trials (disproportionate impact on women’s menstrual cycles that was never accounted for in any of the testing…)

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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.

Right, super woke doctor? Meaning one who understands medical data is impacted by gender considerations? That the majority of data comes from study of male subjects, with very different physiologies?

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Anonymous wrote:With that major, hope she likes working at McDonalds.

My SIL majored in this. She’s a partner in a biglaw firm and makes $2.5m a year.

But go cry about this and let it ruin your day.

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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.

What a great point. So well put.

I noticed this with the COVID trials (disproportionate impact on women’s menstrual cycles that was never accounted for in any of the testing…)

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Anonymous wrote:With that major, hope she likes working at McDonalds.

My SIL majored in this. She’s a partner in a biglaw firm and makes $2.5m a year.

But go cry about this and let it ruin your day.

The anti-women's studies major people do not have good jobs themselves, trust. They betray their lack of education and accomplishments with every post.

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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.

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.

They are threatened.

You’ll notice the “acceptable” DCUM majors of engineering and computer science are the male-dominated spaces where you then go to work in places where women are pretty rare.

“Real majors” are what men are interested in and “real jobs” are at places where men run everything.

Something women run or are interested in can’t possibly be good.

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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.

Right, super woke doctor? Meaning one who understands medical data is impacted by gender considerations? That the majority of data comes from study of male subjects, with very different physiologies?

Can you imagine a woman preferring a woman doctor?!?!?!

What’s next, woman gynecologists?

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My DD majored in Women & Gender Studies at a SLAC. Then she got an MBA and is doing very well. But I don’t think the major is a hook in applying to college.

OP it’s good your DC has a passion, and that will come through in the application, but I’d have her focus more on finding schools that have a good department. Some are quite small and may not have the breadth she is looking for.

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Anonymous wrote:Junior DD- with 3.9 uw GPA and unique pointy ECs (private HS) related to women’s studies/women’s rights/intersectionality (along with corresponding summer internship this year) is looking to assemble a strong list of colleges to visit.


In particular… Looking for schools that are selective where it may be advantageous to apply to this major. Ideas??

Women’s studies/women’s rights is always advantageous for any reach schools, including ivy pluses. Get in under women’s studies/women’s rights; then change or double major in CS or business. One way to game into CS at lottery schools such as MIT, Caltech, or CMU.

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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.

The problem is that Gender Studies does little to nothing to address the very real issues described by the PP. If some one really does want to improve the safety of things like how medicine or PPE impacts women, they get a degree in medicine or a related field. Not gender studies where they study Judith Butler and other post modern nonsense.

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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.

The problem is that Gender Studies does little to nothing to address the very real issues described by the PP. If some one really does want to improve the safety of things like how medicine or PPE impacts women, they get a degree in medicine or a related field. Not gender studies where they study Judith Butler and other post modern nonsense.

You have to understand the very real issues first, in a historical, critical, and well-theorized manner, before you can take steps to address them in a chosen field. Which could be just about anything, given how systemic and pervasive sexism is.

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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.

The problem is that Gender Studies does little to nothing to address the very real issues described by the PP. If some one really does want to improve the safety of things like how medicine or PPE impacts women, they get a degree in medicine or a related field. Not gender studies where they study Judith Butler and other post modern nonsense.

You have to understand the very real issues first, in a historical, critical, and well-theorized manner, before you can take steps to address them in a chosen field. Which could be just about anything, given how systemic and pervasive sexism is.

Exactly. Bio and Chem are not going to talk to undergrads about historic and continual sexism in medicine….

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Anonymous wrote:Junior DD- with 3.9 uw GPA and unique pointy ECs (private HS) related to women’s studies/women’s rights/intersectionality (along with corresponding summer internship this year) is looking to assemble a strong list of colleges to visit.


In particular… Looking for schools that are selective where it may be advantageous to apply to this major. Ideas??

Women’s studies/women’s rights is always advantageous for any reach schools, including ivy pluses. Get in under women’s studies/women’s rights; then change or double major in CS or business. One way to game into CS at lottery schools such as MIT, Caltech, or CMU.

Why would she change majors? She doesn’t want to do CS….

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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.

The problem is that Gender Studies does little to nothing to address the very real issues described by the PP. If some one really does want to improve the safety of things like how medicine or PPE impacts women, they get a degree in medicine or a related field. Not gender studies where they study Judith Butler and other post modern nonsense.

You have to understand the very real issues first, in a historical, critical, and well-theorized manner, before you can take steps to address them in a chosen field. Which could be just about anything, given how systemic and pervasive sexism is.

Exactly. Bio and Chem are not going to talk to undergrads about historic and continual sexism in medicine….

The only people who are seriously researching these issues and effecting real change are scientists, not gender studies majors.

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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.

The problem is that Gender Studies does little to nothing to address the very real issues described by the PP. If some one really does want to improve the safety of things like how medicine or PPE impacts women, they get a degree in medicine or a related field. Not gender studies where they study Judith Butler and other post modern nonsense.

You have to understand the very real issues first, in a historical, critical, and well-theorized manner, before you can take steps to address them in a chosen field. Which could be just about anything, given how systemic and pervasive sexism is.

Exactly. Bio and Chem are not going to talk to undergrads about historic and continual sexism in medicine….

The only people who are seriously researching these issues and effecting real change are scientists, not gender studies majors.

What do you do for a living? I’m not seeing real serious inquiry and thought in your questions. I suspect something very stem-oriented if I’m not mistaken.

Obviously, this person student will not be a medical researcher unless her crew major is in a science. There are many other careers that touch on these topics though.