Why there are more female Education students taking up major in English?

Answer 1

I noticed that too. In biology, English and foreign languages you tend to get more female students (in the US and the UK anyway).

It's because of the way we're raised. Literature (which is English if you're a native speaker) is seen more as a girl's subject, with novels being around "girl" themes like romance. There are initiatives to convince boys to read, but the boy books are on things that are more "practical".

"Boy" genres are things like science fiction, things that aren't considered real "literature" anyway.

From primary school, more girls will do well in English and read the assigned books than boys.

Another reason is career related. Although women increasingly strive to have careers, men "need" careers. Men are more likely to have a degree related to a career, even if it's an unrealistic career. So a man wanting to be a film writer will take a more specialist film degree, a man wanting to be a journalist will take a journalism degree.

A woman will take a degree in a subject that interests her, not really thinking about a degree until she graduates.

Some subjects thought of as more male include business, history, mathematics, and computer science.

It has to do with our upbringing. I wish I took an English degree sometimes.