Naw, that would be counteracted by the major in Accounting. Nothing is as jolly as that. 
I always heard there was no Accounting for women. :rimshot:
Yeah, they’re bitchy and assume everything is about them.
Just kidding.
Okay, that made me chuckle.
They go into Women’s Studies because they have been socialized by the patriarchal hegemony to believe that they can’t compete with men in math-heavy fields like engineering. A Woman’s Studies major is a sign of cultural oppression. You could look it up!
Regards,
Shodan
Studying something is never useless if it can be translated into an informed recommendation for direct action. Some people create theory, other people test that theory, and yet others use it. The world needs intellectuals just as much as it needs people on the ground applying the work of intellectuals.
I know jack shit about women’s studies, but I know a bit about critical race theory, which is similar in that the ultimate aim is social justice. If I were to go into my field (social work) with no knowledge of race theory, statistics and trends in racial inequality, special issues that face minorities, or racism within the broader social and historical context, I would be a less competent social worker.
The bottom line is, you can’t fix a problem until you understand it.
That people who are interested in it should also study something practical, like engineering, accounting, or computer science, that they can use to make a living?
Well, that’s true of anything humanities-related.
Believe me, I know. I was a Spanish lit major.
Peggy Seeger, “I’m Gonna Be an Engineer”
When I was a little girl I wished I was a boy
I tagged along behind the gang and wore my corduroys
Everybody said I only did it to annoy
But I was gonna be an engineer
Momma told me, Can't you be a lady
Your duty is to make me the mother of a pearl
Wait until you're older, dear, and maybe
You'll be glad that you're a girl
Dainty as a Dresden statue
Gentle as a Jersey cow
Smooth as silk, gives creamy milk
Learn to coo, learn to moo
That's what you do to be a lady now
When I went to school I learned to write and how to read
Some history, geography and home economy
And typing is a skill that every girl is sure to need
To while away the extra time until the time to breed
And then they had the nerve to say, What would you like to be
I says, I'm gonna be an engineer
No, you only need to learn to be a lady
The duty isn't yours, for to try and run the world
An engineer could never have a baby
Remember, dear, that you're a girl
Ah, the White Studies Program.
All I read is blah, blah, blah. Really, race theory? I understand the need for statistics, but is there a special kind of statistics for dealing with racial issues?
I think the idea that the most important thing about a person is their race or gender is part of the reason that inequality persists. If we spent more time trying to teach math, English, and science than trying to deal with the kumbaya bullshit we’d be better off. Let’s start treating people as individuals and look at what they need to do to get ahead. There isn’t black math and womens’ math. It’s patronizing.
We need to be vigilant that we don’t literally “white wash” history, but when you have things like Black History month and Women’s Studies it makes it seem like black people and women are not part of society.
We’ve had years of this crap and the gap between black and white income is getting worse.
The thing is, if you want to decide if globalization is a problem or not, you don’t take Women’s Studies, you take economics.
Regards,
Shodan
It’s a single class, and part of the core curriculum. He apparently
- has no choice but to take it, since it’s required, and
- could be majoring in anything, including economics, polisci, physics, or anything else.
Can’t you just pay some chick to do it for you?
If you want to understand whether globalization effects women disproportionally (for better or worse) you study economic theory as it pertains to women. That coursework is often co-sponsored through both departments.
Because I was more interested in History and Economic History in particular as a women’s studies minor, I missed a lot of the “political oppression” coursework for material that did have a lot of statistical content (i.e. what is the average age at which a woman has children, how many children does she have, and does that have a decent R2 value to her lifelong economic earnings and living in poverty? Discover that have a lot of children young and you do indeed have a higher chance of living in poverty, you focus efforts on educating people on the impact of having a lot of kids young. Sounds pretty obvious, but that is still a huge issue.)
That’s pretty simplistic. Obviously if you were to do that as a study instead of undergraduate coursework for a minor, you’d have a lot more variables analysis.
One thing I remember is that humanities undergrads tend to make more money over their lifetime (perhaps because they often go to grad school for law degrees, MBAs, pre-med is a liberal arts degrees - perhaps because they are encouraged to pursue a better job than waiting tables ;)) than people who go strictly into Engineering fields (which provide a decent income straight out of school, without an overwhelming need for grad school). However, my memory and the data is from 20 years ago.
Q: How many Women’s Studies professors does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: One. And it’s not funny.
She, I would assume, unless Women’s Studies programmes in America are much softer than the ones here.
These days, to get a job at a major company out of school you pretty much need to have a masters or better from a top school. When I started out in software we had tons of English and History majors from liberal arts schools. Made lunch time conversations more interesting.
The OP specified that it’s a"required core studies class". That means that, typically, every student at the school, male or female, is required to take it in order to graduate. Usually, these types of classes are taken in the first two years of college, although I know of many, many people whose senior year was made miserable by the necessity of taking all the core courses they were trying to avoid for three years.
The OP is indeed a she, although AFAIK men are not barred from Womens’ Studies programs at most US colleges.