Gender/Women’s Studies Major /App Strategy

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Why do people feel entitled to judge what other people’s kids study in college?

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Anonymous wrote:Wellesley

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Anonymous wrote:Why do people feel entitled to judge what other people’s kids study in college?

Thank you!

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Anonymous wrote: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.

+1. In government, hired many people with these majors over the years. Also many other humanities majors.

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Anonymous wrote:Unique undergrad....make sure she picks up good Master's program. Good route to medical school.

How would a gender studies degree even remotely prepare anyone for medical school??

Heaven help us if gender studies programs are where our future doctors are coming from.

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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.

I don't think many women would feel comfortable going to an OBGYN whose background is a womans studies degree.

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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.

Have you sat on a toilet ever? Most are designed for a 5'0" - 5'7" tall person, which is disproportionately adult female sized.

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Anonymous wrote:Unique undergrad....make sure she picks up good Master's program. Good route to medical school.

How would a gender studies degree even remotely prepare anyone for medical school??

Heaven help us if gender studies programs are where our future doctors are coming from.

It's not. It's a route to non-profit, maybe social work if also combined with a graduate degree. But many companies will just completely disregard your resume. It's the far left equivalent of graduating from Liberty University.

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Anonymous wrote:Unique undergrad....make sure she picks up good Master's program. Good route to medical school.

How would a gender studies degree even remotely prepare anyone for medical school??

Heaven help us if gender studies programs are where our future doctors are coming from.

You may be surprised to learn that women seek medical care, sometimes even for woman-specific issues.

Maybe they don’t cover that in STEM programs.

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Anonymous wrote:These responses reveal the parental pressure that’s causing students to flock disproportionately to preprofessional majors, even at the most selective schools, and compete from minute one for the same classes, grades, internships and jobs. This paranoia about getting a job makes no sense to me.

No wonder so many kids are suffering from mental health issues these days.

It’s “Liberal Arts is useless bullshit” with an extra large dose of misogyny for good measure.

Reminds me of the other thread where DD is ABSOLUTELY MISERABLE at an Ivy and the husband won’t let them transfer to anywhere sane, they will only pay for the exact same thing.

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My prediction: this kid gets in everywhere. Real interest like this can’t be faked.

Bravo to her.

Middle finger to all the haters here.

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Anonymous wrote:Why do people feel entitled to judge what other people’s kids study in college?

Because of student loan forgiveness.

People don't want to pay for other people's kids frivolous nonsense degrees.

She’s not borrowing $$$. Read the thread.

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It probably doesn't matter where she goes to school. It's not like programs featuring this major are competitively ranked against each other, or that perceptions of academic rigor in this fringe focus area are likely to have a meaningful influence on graduate school admission or job prospects. So pick a school which appeals for non-academic, non-financial reasons - size, location, culture.

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If she is remotely good at Math, she can apply to major hardcore science or Engineering in any Ivy and minor in Women and gender study.

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Anonymous wrote:More than anything in this entire discussion shows why perhaps it is valuable to read, analyze, study and scrutinize this topic in detail.

Exactly. Its like a...gender studies class!

I’m not sure if comparing a college degree with a chat board used for killing time is really the point you want to make.

Isn’t it ironic?