Women: Would you admit that you have a degree in "Women's Studies"?

Question

More and more women are leaving this gem off their resume, or are neglecting to mention it in polite company.

Should the degree be renamed: "Learn-to-Hate-Men Studies"?

Answer 1

Smart people will leave worthless, irrelevant stuff off their resumes....and nothings more worthless than Women's Studies!

Answer 2

I have a degree in Women's Studies and I'm not afraid to put it on a resume. I don't care who knows it.
Nope...not everyone with this degree has a rich mommy and daddy. I paid my own way through college.

If you knew anything about Women's Studies...seen what courses are actually available...it has nothing to do about learning to hate men.

Do you even have a degree yourself? Let me guess..."Learning-to-Hate-Women's Studies?"

Answer 3

I have an undergraduate degree in women's studies and I put it on my CV. Seeing as how I'm in a PhD program focusing on women's history and American studies, it would be strange not to include my undergrad work.

That aside, women's studies is a liberal arts degree. If you pursue any liberal arts degree at a worthwhile college/university, you'll be trained in critical thinking, writing, and speaking skills. The expectation that the actual degree content of your undergrad degree is meaningful is a bit problematic I think.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

It isn't about hating men at all. I would admit to it. You obviously don't really know what women's studies is otherwise you wouldn't post such an ignorant question.

Answer 6

How many women do you know with a degree in women's studies? The ones I know are professors and they definitely don't leave it off their CV's.

Answer 7

If I did, I would. I don't.

Please link to your source when you state that "More and more women are leaving this gem off their resume or are neglecting to mention it in polite company."

Methinks you're making up facts to suit your broad prejudices.

Answer 8

I'm not ashamed of my major. I put it on my resume only if it's relevant to what I'm after. When I applied to film school, it made sense to be a Women's Studies major wanting to study images of male and female sexuality in the media. :)

Answer 9

I would absolutely admit to having such a degree (if I did)! It's not about hating men, but about understanding the historic and cultural background of what it means to be female. No one would ever deny a degree in African-American studies (nor would they refer to it as Hate-Whites-Studies), and it's a similar concept- the study of the history and experience of a group of people.

I have a "reputable" degree in biology, and I have the utmost respect for those who study Women's Studies.

Answer 10

Not for the reasons you have outlined, but no I wouldn't admit it.

I put it up there with sociology and other majors which it always seems people take when mommy and daddy are footing the bill and they can't decide 'what they want to be when they grow up'.

Before I get attacked -I mean no offense to anyone in these majors -that is just what I have come across in my life. You may be the exception.

Edit: lol at Terry H - if you had the utmost respect for Women's Studies you would not have called biology a 'reputable' degree. That is exactly my point.

Answer 11

I would never go for a degree in Women's Studies, since my intended career path wouldn't find a degree like that valuable. Under different circumstances, I'd earn it and be proud of it. Women's Studies doesn't teach misandry. If that's what its students learn, blame the individual profs.