Because somewhere along the lines, it became accepted fact that in order to succeed, your kid just HAS to go to college. So, my best friend, for instance, who is happy to work as a woodworker is forced to go to get a business degree. Why???
I am a college student at a large public university, studying chemistry. That kind of field is a legitimate field of study, and will benifit society. Ditto for med school if I get in. But what in the heck would I do with a women's study degree?
Parents need to have tighter control on the purse strings. Because they do not, college students taking bogus majors have the free time to engage in silly activism.
Parents? I wonder how many of these useless degrees are being paid for by taxpayers. I think every single student in Chicano studies in my university was in some kind of scholarship or grant program. Those of us working our own way through college looked for practical useful degrees.
Screech about the evil patriarchy, subvert the Constitution of the United States, and apply for federal grants.
Like all feminists.
That makes me wonder how many students in these types of programs work their way through college. Most people I know with serious degrees worked their way through college to pay expenses. How many people would be willing to work their way through college for a degree in wymns studies?
It'd be interesting to see a financial sources breakdown by degree program.
Preparation for a specific job is not the main purpose of a college education. That's what technical schools, business schools, and on-the-job training is for.
The reason why Women's Studies is not a legitimate academic discipline is that it is not a subject in the same sense as history or philosophy or chemistry or biology. Everything in Women's Studies could be taught in sociology, psychology, history, political science or antrhopology classes--except for the male bashing, which is not an academic subject, either.
This too can be abused with parents who have too narrow a view of what their child ought to study, especiaaly those types who desire to "relive" their own lives through the children. To some, subjects history or mathematics (a field I was interested in) are "bogus" majors.