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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Women's studies - what does one do with a degree in Women's studies? How many people have to die and free up a job for someone else?

Political science, I can see.[/quote]

Sadly, my daughter went PolySci/Women's Studies as well.  Hopefully she will go to law school which hopefully would be a bit more marketable.

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I double majored in public policy and women's studies and now have a flourishing career in management consulting. I've always been interested in strategy work so this seemed like a natural next step after I decided against law school. Net 200k annually. So don't lose all hope![/quote]

The pp needs to state which school you came from. If you came from the
Ivies or top schools you can major in basket weaving and still get a management consulting or finance job. The schools that op is looking for don't fit that description. Additionally I suspect your public policy degree was of more value than your women's studies degree. [/quote]

The opposite is true. "Public policy" as a professional degree doesn't mean much. Most people who are actually in public policy have law degrees or economics or something substantive. Women's studies, however, would require the kind of reading, writing, analysis of any liberal arts degree and so would provide actual skills. I say this as someone who majored in public policy and got a law degree. I wish I had done something more substantive as a undergraduate.[/quote]

And I say this as someone who worked in finance and management consulting. No one will have picked up the women's studies resume as someone worthy of consideration but the public policy/political science major if from a top school and with high gps may have been considered initially for recruitment[/quote]

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