Why do girls go for poorly paid degrees?

Generalising is fun huh

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they have no ambition, there just happy earning 20k a year because they enjoy their job

Tell that to Taylor Swift. Raking in the cash right now.

Tell that to Taylor Swift. Raking in the cash right now.

yep because its true

Well, university lecturing will always have a higher threshold of entry than teaching for two reasons. Firstly, there's the obvious fact that university lecturers are teaching far harder work than school teachers, so they quite simply have to be more intelligent. Secondly, university lecturers have to be do research. Especially in science subjects, you're pushing the boundary of knowledge. It is obviously more demanding.

Teaching is a piss-take, and it's half the reason why education standards are so low in Britain.

Again, for whatever reasons - there's growing evidence that it's rooted in biology, but it's still too early to say for sure - the jobs women tend to dominate tend to be 'easier', in the sense that more people are capable of doing them.

The view people have about psychology is less about the actual degree or the fact that women dominate it though. It's viewed a little scathingly because pretty much every uni offers it, and comparitively few graduates actually use their degrees. Psychology is an incredibly good degree if you're doing it to go on and work further in the field of psychology. But the overwhelming majority of psychology students are doing it because they couldn't think of anything else to do; that's what damages the reputation of the degree. In countries where there are far fewer psychology graduates, a psychology degree typically leads to a psychology job, which makes the degree more reputable.

I appreciate the bouncing of ideas.

Agreed about the job being more academically strenuous - but I do feel that there should be higher requirements for teaching (akin to that of being a lecturer) - as teaching is, in real terms, such an incredibly important job. My teachers only really knew of their subjects (most of them anyway), really should know a lot more about how children function.

I think I get your point about biology - in that males tend to perform better as visual-spatial tasks and females tend to have better social skills (in adulthood, if I recall correctly - differences but not considerable differences, but significant. Note also that it appears to be societal expectations driving these biological changes rather than it being genetic, as far as I'm aware). So my supposition may be confounded by this.

But then that would, I guess, pose the question of why we (as society(s)) expect women to display features which are less favorable than those which are (expected to be) developed by males. ^^

Couldn't agree more. I'd only add that in my experience, you couldn't even count on the teachers knowing their subjects!

It actually goes beyond that, it seems. There is a growing weight of evidence to suggest that the different predispositions of men and women are affected to some extent by our genetic differences. Interestingly, men and women appear to show the greatest divergence in their career choices in those countries which have the most gender equality; it's the countries where women lack equality that we see the greatest proportion of them entering STEM fields, for instance. This would rather suggest that when social and economic pressures are at a minimum, and men and women are most able to make their own personal decisions, they generally make different choices. This is fairly compelling evidence to a more fundamental genetic influence.

Like I said, the jury is still very much out on this; the studies are fairly cutting edge and the pressure from feminist lobbyists on scientists to not find any genetic differences is a real stumbling block - if you want to see evidence of this, there's a really interesting documentary that was conducted in Norway (I think) on the matter.

Google says average starting salary of engineer is £23.5K
Google says average starting salary of a teacher is £22.2K
Its not that a big difference.

Teachers have a high starting salary (presumably to lure in young graduates) but very limited progression.

I dunno, lots of girls I know including myself are going for very well paid degrees....(biomedicine, pharmacology and law)

obviously not celebritys, rich or famous people,

Define 'high'.

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Well from the girls I know who have done poor degrees, they either want to be a kept woman so to speak, were the husband is the main breadwinner and they make use of the joint account, or, particularly in the case of ethnic minority women such as Muslims etc then they expect to be in the homestead anyway and so just do a degree to part etc for 3 years. This is just from my experiences and Dosent apply to all women so mods don't send me a card and sjw's please don't lambast me lol.

When I read posts like these about Muslim women I always think 'which Muslims are these?' - there's nothing inherent in our religion stopping us from working. I come from a household where every person works 8-12 hour shifts for the NHS - no one is expected to stay at the homestead.

I think this is a case of backwards culture and being uneducated leading to people being forced/choosing to just look after the home regardless of their capabilities.

Isn't it common knowledge that the best paying subjects are engineering/medicine/maths/physics etc and these are all male dominated