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Q: What are good university majors for girls to get a nice job with good money?

In China, International trade,English Language and Literature,finance,medical and law are good majors for girls to get a nice job with good money.

What about in your country?

11 years 22 weeks ago in  Business & Jobs - China

 
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I understand your reasoning, but I disagree with your outlook.

 

I would (and will when my daughter gets to that age) advise a potential student to take a major in a field of study, A. they enjoy and B. they are good at.

 

Why? Because you are much more likely to stay with that subject in those circumstances, than you are if you pick a subject purely for its earning potential.

 

However, more and more in the UK at least, a Bachelor degree is viewed as an entry level qualification. Past governments have encouraged more and more students to take a degree with the 'official' target being 50% of students to go to university. Some say because of this the standards have fallen lower and lower to the situation where a bachelor degree won't even get you an interview for the really high paid jobs, that takes inside knowledge, contacts (same thing really) or a Masters or higher plus successful experience.

maggiegirly:

Of course, you must enjoy the major ,otherwise,it's useless.

I am glad that I picked a major I enjoyed.

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I know that in China medicine and law are good majors for women. But, in a total reversal outside of China, most lawyers are homeless and doctors are noted for being prostitutes on the weekend to make ends meet. 

GuilinRaf:

So true!

I worked as an attorney for the Puerto Rico Justice Department for 7 years, but with the massive layoffs and political squabbles, I have been in China for the last six...

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so GR , are you homeless or a prostitute now?

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In my opinion, other majors are also a good foundation for finding a well-paid job. Nowadays, you also see more and more women majoring in engineering, for example. Before I left home, the ratio of male students to female students attending the Faculty of Technology (we only have one university) was almost 1:1 ( almost because there were more girls than guys).

 

 

 

 

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in the usa, women have equal rights . so it really doesn't matter. but more women than men go into nursing. and nurses make a ton of money thanks to unions and do much less work than they used to do in the past. nurses now do not do a lot of the menial tasks. so another job title developed. certified nurses assistants, they do the crap nurses don't want to do for about 10 -12 bucks an hour. women more so than men work as secretaries, and they can earn a lot of money. even more so if your boss is a jerk and sexually harasses you.  devil

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I was English Language and Literature Major (in Eastern Europe), its like the worst thing you can choose to study...if you want money

Here is ok though.

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Nursing is pretty popular in my country also probably office or clerical work and almost any  medical job. 

JackieChan:

in China?

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Where are you from?????Aren't you chinese???

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In Australia, employers are by law prohibited from discriminating against potential employees on the basis of their gender or from paying a different wage based on gender, age or anything than a person's ability to do their job. Technically, therefore, the jobs where us girls can make good money are the exact same as the ones where men can make good money.

 

Of course, in practice, that's not exactly what happens. Most highly paid younger women I know (my demographic, so that's what I know from among my peers) tend to be in law, medicine, PR/marketing, finance or high-commission sales jobs.

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