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Not all education is the same. If memory serves a recent Chronicle of Higher Ed study had gender studies bachelors making $14/hour with software engineers making $100k/year.

So maybe education is the most important factor if you only count in demand fields.




What job can you get from "Gender Studies" beside teaching it ?


There are scores of jobs in areas such as retail management that don't care what your degree was in, only that you have a degree from somewhere in something. In some, you'll get hired in as a fast-tracker to management with training and such, others you'll find opportunity with just a bit of retail experience (having a job through college can be enough). Sometimes the same is true for secretarial positions, and I'm guessing these sorts of qualifiers are everywhere.


The existence of such jobs is a smell of "class solidarity" amongs some kind of upper-middle. "We don't care what you learned, as long as you went through the right social initiation programme".

By contrast, in software there is at least he potential to do things differently. On Friday I was on the interview commitee for a candidate who we accepted. Now I realize that I have no idea what degree she has (if any). Her CV was so full of past projects that I never got around to looking at her education.

It would be different for a fresh graduate, but if such a CV mentioned a vocational school or an online course, then that would be neither better nor worse than a CS degree.


Ironically the Chronicle for Higher Ed had the average pay for a Gender Studies professor at around $100k. Given the kind of debt kids with bachelors are leaving school with and their job prospects, it looks like gender studies is one of the worst parts of predatory higher education.


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And then you combine it with your software skills to do: https://blog.pinterest.com/en/more-gender-options-pinterest




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