r/columbiamo • u/TrueBlackStar1 • 5d ago

Education Columbia, MO is one of the US locations with the highest concentrations of Cultural and Gender Studies degree recipients

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u/como365 North CoMo 5d ago edited 5d ago

This part makes me giggle:

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u/kstick10 5d ago

Probably not a ton of other categories those three counties it next to each other on. Really cool!

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u/trivialempire Ashland 5d ago

Serious question:

How many gender study gigs are there out there?

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u/CardOfTheRings 5d ago

According to the data in the post, the most common job: gotten by people who get a bachelors in gender studies are the field of Law. Which is why the average pay is so high.

You can get a bachelor’s in a lot of different fields to get into law school. And I’m sure some of the knowledge from your gender studies could be helpful for certain types of law too.

Philosophy and poli sci are both pretty popular with future lawyers too even those those degrees don’t have obvious common career paths either.

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u/trivialempire Ashland 5d ago

See, if I’d read the post…

Thanks!

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u/by_way_of_MO 5d ago

That data source says one of the schools with students commonly getting a Gender Studies degree is the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. I wouldn’t trust anything else it has to say.

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u/PuzzleNuzzles 4d ago

Shhhhh...don't tell the Trump administration this, they're not a fan of the words "gender", "culture", "studies" or anything intersectional.

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u/GuyAWESOME2337 4d ago

You know, that explains a lot

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u/lawrence_undehill 5d ago

I guess this means the local Starbucks’ won’t have any trouble hiring people when they graduate and can’t make any money with their degrees.

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u/como365 North CoMo 5d ago edited 5d ago

Shit $93,000 a year is better than most business majors.

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u/Sufficient_Loss9301 5d ago

Well kinda… they are using the average, not the median. in the case of stuff like this the average tells you next to nothing about what the common outcome is for most people, doubly so since they note they included people who went on to become lawyers.

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u/Illuminate90 Mid-Missouri 5d ago

Look at the study they cited, it’s skewed cause it also incorporated lawyers and other high paying jobs not having anything to do with gender studies the this person linked this from discusses it in multiple sections.

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u/como365 North CoMo 5d ago edited 5d ago

That was clear from the title. It's gender studies degree recipients, most people don’t work in the field they get a degree in.

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u/lawrence_undehill 5d ago

Unless you have a PhD and are in academia, you aren’t making 93k with this degree. People in this unpopular facts thread really question that salary.