"What's wrong with women studies? One of the fascinating benefits of college is that you will bump into people with completely different world view from yours.

"What's wrong with women studies? One of the fascinating benefits of college is that you will bump into people with completely different world view from yours. Some of them will tell you at the university cafe why women studies is more likely to impact the world than your tech startup." You explained exactly what's wrong with women's (now called gender) studies: all they can do is talk and react. They don't do. In the sciences (I use that term loosely), there is a boundary of what isn't known. Scientists probe that boundary and make it further by testing and finding out what is and isn't. Now, what does 'gender studies' do? They sit around in a circle and blab about stuff that affects them. From IU Bloomington, the first campus to offer this type of degree: "Women’s Studies and Gender Studies offer exciting interdisciplinary courses that concentrate on the position of women and men across many cultures. Courses explore issues related to women and gender across academic disciplines, examining such topics as race and class, business and politics, health, the body, sexuality, developing societies, the arts, academic institutions and knowledge, sports and leisure, law, and the media." Cited http://www.indiana.edu/~wostgens/ http://www.indiana.edu/~wostgens/ Engineers make stuff. Programmers make stuff. Chemists make stuff. Creators create, and that adds a lot of value to civilisation. What does gender studies add? A whole lot of nothing. We only have their own website to go by.