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I can't tell if you are joking, so I'm taking it seriously. Uber's human resources and or lawyers should have caught many of its missteps. Common undergrad deg
by MollyR 9y ago
I can't tell if you are joking, so I'm taking it seriously.
Uber's human resources and or lawyers should have caught many of its missteps.
Common undergrad degrees for HR being in management, business administration, and related business degrees.
Lawyers are well lawyers.
Gender Studies doesn't prepare you for business as well as an actual business related degree, it prepares you for a mostly academic career which has limited spots.
That being said, even STEM and business degrees are worth less and less as competition increases. You now need a degree and often years of experience for jobs.
The only thing that really angers me is charging 60,000 dollars for a gender studies degree, and having a student take loans for it. 1/100 might get lucky and work at a big tech company as a tech evangelist, but it's not sustainable.
We need universities to be far more accountable about what degrees actually lead to jobs.
- adamson 9y agoI feel like you're missing their point. You can make the case that a gender studies degree prepares you for a mostly academic career only insofar as companies aren't creative enough to find a way to use the unique skills that someone with a gender studies degree has developed. Maybe Uber wouldn't have had the toxic culture they ended up with if they had hired conscientious people who have spent time studying things like how gender power dynamics play out in the small - and empowered them to speak - instead of relying solely on business graduates.