I think I really got the goat of a women's college grad the other night.

She brought up her alma mata, a woman's college that is one of the Seven Sister colleges that popped up for woman in the 1800s.

To a certain degree these schools are prestigious but really only because of their history. They appeared at a time when and real education for women was nonexistent. I'll be the first to say that not letting woman into schools was a waste of talent but I digress.

These still prestigious institutions for the most part are still liberal arts schools which is to say they they don't really give a woman much of a useful education. While some of them do have STEM programs, it appears to me that the push is for the liberal arts.

In short these schools tend to produce teachers, social workers and the like. The market is flooded with these types and they don't really pay very much. The real jobs out there are in the scientific/technology fields. We now have enough school marms and social workers to supply every third world country out there, including California and Massachusetts.

While the little girl up the street can't brag about having graduated from a prestigious school as a Seven Sister , she does quite well financially. She graduated from a state run college and is a civil engineer. She was hired right out of school at a hefty salary.

Prestigious or not,  liberal arts schools and the liberal arts for the most part don't provide good jobs.

Actually the biggest thing the Seven Sisters really did was after the Civil War. New York, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts were hit pretty hard and the number of eligible bachelors was pretty low for the rest of the century. Many women decided to go west to find a suitable husband.

The liberal education provided to these women enabled them to find jobs as school marms. This saved them from ending up in prostitution unlike a lot of uneducated women that wound up working for Miss Kitty at the Long Branch.















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