Captain Capitalism: The Myth "Women Earn the Majority of Degrees" (their degrees tend to be avoid-math-at-all-cost useless humanities degrees)

ErasmusMRA · 2012-10-07T00:08:55+00:00

Again like the wage gap it comes down to individual choice. Men choose hard degrees like engineering and computer science because that's where the money is. Women can get away with useless degrees because they can find a man to marry and do all the money earning for them.

Men don't have the choice. Women do.

HettGutt_MRMarxist · 2012-10-07T03:40:23+00:00

His analysis is totally superficial, uninformed, and intentionally one-sided. "Individual choice" is largely an illusion. Individuals are a product of the society in which they live. We can get women to be better-represented in science, engineering, and tech, but these changes aren't going to happen simply by offering scholarships to women entering STEM fields, as feminists seem to think. We need to raise girls to have an interest in math and science.

Furthermore, there's no such thing as a "useless degree," only a flooding of the labor market for people with credentials for specific careers. Flooded labor markets let businesses get away with paying less. Feminists are partially to blame, since pushing otherwise-stay-at-home parents (regardless of gender) into the job market lets wages stay low without reducing household income as more and more labor gets diverted to making profits for corporations. Intellectual zombies like this "Captain Capitalism" are more at fault.

Handwaving away the wage gap by claiming it disappears when you control for so-called choices is totally disingenuous. The whole point of the wage gap is that gender shouldn't be correlated with raises, career field, hours worked, etc.

And men do have a choice. We can make being a stay-at-home dad more common (which is coming true) and we can organize for better pay so fewer hours of work per household are necessary to maintain a decent standard of living.

Title	Captain Capitalism: The Myth "Women Earn the Majority of Degrees" (their degrees tend to be avoid-math-at-all-cost useless humanities degrees)
Author	curious67
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Comments	11
Date	October 6, 2012 9:14 PM UTC (13 years ago)
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