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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Women should ask themselves what the traditional male equivalent is of whatever they’re traditionally considering, and consider that instead, because it’s usually more lucrative.

Example, teacher versus tenured college professor.
Nurse versus doctor
Cosmetologist versus dermatologist
Art teacher versus engineer
Admin assistant vs program manager

Obviously these are all very different jobs, but I hope you get what I mean.

Also, women should not shy away from things or jobs with numbers in them. Data science, business analysis, finance, corporate real estate, etc. I wish as many women were interested in business school as they are law school.

Lastly, I wish more women would run for office[/quote]

What?  Most of these are absurd and not comparable.

Cosmetologist:  6 wks.  Dermatologist:  More than 10 years.

Art teacher vs engineer?  That's not even worth addressing.[/quote]

I completely agree, but they did acknowledge they weren’t the same.

I have a degree in Computer Science. My daughter wants to be an Engineer. When I tell people that, they get uncomfortable. Even though they know what I do is technical. I tried a few times to follow it up with “I don’t know. Maybe she will be a Special Education Teacher” and it is immediately followed by coos and encouraging remarks. I asked a friend, who’s son wants to be an engineer (his Dad has the same degree I have from the same school). She said that people are always encouraging when she mentioned it.

There are definitely people with an aptitude for things that end up in completely different areas because they don’t even know the difference. Had my parents not insisted I choose something else, I’d have been a journalist, and from this thread you can see maybe that would t have been an awesome field to start in 1997 with the Internet booming at the time. I’m so glad I didn’t do what people expected me to do.[/quote]

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