Courses and gender

[amirite?]

I was just wondering if some courses tend to attract more women than men and vice versa. I dont want to get into my first year of psychology and realise 90% of my peers are women - i can see some advantages in that but you know what I mean. Obviously nursing and miwifery attracts more woman than men but are there any that you wouldn't expect, coming from secondary school where psych for example is pretty much 50/50?

[mark_alec]

Gender studies and literature are dominated by females. The health/biological sciences typically have more females than the physical ones.

[ReVeL]

Arts in general has much more females than males, so I would imagine Psychology would follow this trend. But like you said, it's not all bad..

[Gloamglozer]

Arts in general has much more females than males, so I would imagine Psychology would follow this trend. But like you said, it's not all bad..

lol.  How about courses like Commerce?

Also, I think Engineering is mainly dominated by males I heard.

[vitir]

I'd love to major in feminist studies....that would be the life

[Glockmeister]

Nutrition and Dietetics at Monash apparently only has one guy in it.

[Fyrefly]

Commerce is about 50-50 overall... more women doing marketing and management majors compared to more men doing economics and econometrics though, methinks.

Engineering and IT tend to be male-dominated.

[Eriny]

When I did Psych, there seemed to be more females than maless, but it wouldn't have been 90/10. Probably about 65% females? At a guess...

You definitely shouldn't let gender decide whether or not you want to do a course. It should be based on whether or not you actually like it!

My two majors (anthropology and philosophy) are interesting. Anthropology is definitely dominated by females while philosophy is dominate by males (it depends on what type of philosophy for some extent, continental seems to attract more females to put the ratio at around 50/50 but analytic/applied is definitely male dominated). Interestingly, in subjects that are dominated by males, there is usually much less opportunity to get a word in, but I feel more compelled to join in on the debate in order to cut through all the bullshit that's being said and the debate can get both lively and obscure, which is entertaining. In female dominated tutes, there seems to be less talking overall, but it at least seems as though people have done the reading and everyone knows what they're talking about. This could reflect the subjects I've been doing, rather than gender though, and come to think of it, philosophy probably does attract the 'let's say stuff for the sake of sounding clever'-type.

[ReVeL]

lol.  How about courses like Commerce?

Probably 50-50, but as you can imagine mostly populated with our international friends..

Also, I think Engineering is mainly dominated by males I heard.

Yeah almost all guys.

[Gloamglozer]

lol.  How about courses like Commerce?

Probably 50-50, but as you can imagine mostly populated with our international friends..

That's what I heard as well.  Commerce has a lot of international students.  That does have its advantages as well though. 

[schmalex]

I'd love to major in feminist studies....that would be the life

Actually, you wouldn't. I know a male who did it and said that they all stared at him like he was the devil....I mean it's basically learning about how evil men are

[xXNovaxX]

I know someone who did feminist studies; she was the ONLY staright female, she said the rest ere those "butch" lesbians, and they stared at her as shmalex said like she was the "devil".

Her lecturer/tutor teacher was a MALE, so all the students always took any chance to verbally attack him, blaming him/the male population for world events etc.

[schmalex]

It sucks because it's an interesting subject but all these people use it as an opportunity to blame men for everything that is wrong with the world

[QuantumJG]

I was just wondering if some courses tend to attract more women than men and vice versa. I dont want to get into my first year of psychology and realise 90% of my peers are women - i can see some advantages in that but you know what I mean. Obviously nursing and miwifery attracts more woman than men but are there any that you wouldn't expect, coming from secondary school where psych for example is pretty much 50/50?

Arts: Mainly female. All those subjects require creativity and lots of essays.
Commerce: 50-50, you can be either male/female to want $$$
Engineering: mainly male, but more women are entering the engineering sector.
Science: 50-50,

But as for physics I guess out of the people who do it, you have very few girls doing physics.

It's mainly Biology, psychology and chemistry that take all females doing science, but maths also has a few females studying it. I guess the main three tend to offer a promising a future to scientific research. Maths itself though is always in the spotlight with research and I guess people fail to see that.

The health and law sectors I would also say are very 50-50  

[QuantumJG]

It sucks because it's an interesting subject but all these people use it as an opportunity to blame men for everything that is wrong with the world

When I did criminology we talked about feminism as feminists have particular theories (plausible for the criminal act). We were told it's more to do about fighting for equality, than being spiteful towards men.

I don't know how people hate the opposite sex, I definately don't hate women.

But yeah I would probably stay away from studying feminism if you are a male. By all means study it in your own time, but, from what I hear, you could be in hell.