Anyone notice what these “non-professional” degrees have in common?

Nursing
Physician assistants
Physical therapists
Audiologists
Architects
Accountants
Educators
Social workers

Here’s a hint, look at the two least obvious ones:

43% of new architects are women:

https://www.ncarb.org/blog/new-architects-are-increasingly-diverse-explore-updated-demographics-data

And 60% of all accountants:

https://www.careerexplorer.com/careers/accountant/demographics/

This is clearly a plan to minimize career paths for women.

Edit What the heck, lets check the rest of them…

92% of audiologists are women:

https://www.careerexplorer.com/careers/audiologist/demographics/

88.8% of nurses:

https://www.aacnnursing.org/news-data/fact-sheets/nursing-workforce-fact-sheet

75% of physician assistants:

https://www.careerexplorer.com/careers/physician-assistant/demographics/

70% of physical therapists:

https://www.careerexplorer.com/careers/physical-therapist/demographics/

77% of educators:

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/09/24/key-facts-about-public-school-teachers-in-the-u-s/

81% of social workers:

https://www.careerexplorer.com/careers/social-worker/demographics/

  • daannii@lemmy.world
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    The BBB got rid of direct plus loans starting 2026. Those are grad school loans that most people use to get any masters or fund PhDs that aren’t fully funded.

    So.

    Literally every masters degree is impossible now unless you are rich.

    I kept telling people it was in the bbb but everyone was worried about the medicaid medicare cuts.

    Whole university departments are going to close.

    No more doctors. Nurses. Lawyers. Engineers.

    No more master level degrees for anyone except Nepo babies.

    That’s the plan in project 2025.

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    First of all aren’t audiologists doctors? Also where I live architects are considered engineers and saying engineering and medicine are non-professional is so absurd to me.

    Also if people working in these professions could coordinate and organise a nationwide strike it would literally halt the entire economy.

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    Nursing is a no, but theology is a yes.

    They’re rolling back women’s lib, one step at a time. We had 50 years. We weren’t even there yet and they’re taking it away from us.

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      The changes are gender based. They aim to disenfranchise women the most. Project 2025.

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        Men who can’t handle their own feelings or learn to define themselves as individuals separate from a woman. And don’t have the wherewithal to enroll in therapy to figure it out.

        That is MAGA. A reaction to women’s lib.

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        I have nothing against soul searching for personal betterment. That’s cool. It’s bizarre that it’s considered “professional” when an accountant, nurse practitioner, and social worker are not.

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          I think that a person who has decided to major in Theology has already passed the point where they’re soul searching for the most part. They’ve already decided to dedicate a lot of time to studying the thing they’ve already decided is the answer.

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            As a working professional electrical engineer, I get more, and much prefer, conversations of theology with more educated individuals than myself significantly more than I do with other technically minded people.

            I’d also say that most people going into higher education for anything have “already decided to dedicate a lot of time to studying the thing they’ve already decided is the answer.”

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              I get the impression that you think you disagree with me much more than I think you disagree with me, at least from what you’ve said here in your comment. I basically agree with everything you’ve said, apart from these two points, which I think you implied more than outright said:

              First, I think you are implying that “more educated individuals than [yourself]” is a group that includes theology majors, but does not generally include “other technically minded people,” which is something I disagree with.

              And second, I think you are implying that the study of theology is simply an academic effort, like any other major. But the basis for my comment was the assertion that most people major in theology because they are already religious. They believe their own religion to be correct, and other beliefs to be incorrect, and therefore wish to study to further their devotion to that religion. Perhaps I am mistaken in that assertion, but that was the basis for my saying “they’ve already decided” the answer.

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          That probably depends on what style of theological study you are talking about, plenty of them are basically just historical literature specialist.

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    This is exactly what our mess of a health care system needs … fewer nurses. This is exactly what our uneducated voter population needs … fewer educators. The downward spiral never ends.

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    Today I saw the new Wicked movie. Afterwards, as I usually do after a movie, I went to the bathroom and checked my phone to see if Trump was dead yet. If he died, I was going to yell “ding dong the witch is dead”, then I was going to come out of the stall and tell everyone in the bathroom that Trump was dead, then I was gonna play “no one mourns the wicked” on my phone

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    It has also been reported that engineering, a business master’s, counseling or therapy, and speech pathology will not be considered “professional” either.

    Engineering is not professional? What a laughable sack of shit. We’re going to have a lot of work ahead to undo this damage.

    I look forward to improving our systems better than they’d previously been when trump and project 2025 showed up.

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    Seriously? Architect? Accountant? What exactly does the distinction professional even mean then?

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      Professional… When you do it for a living and can live off doing it then you’re a professional.

      Hookers are professional at sexual pleasures. Porn starts are professional at making sex videos. One could argue that these are not the same. Yet both are professions in my opinion.

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        I really like the etymology of the word.

        Thus, as people became more and more specialized in their trade, they began to ‘profess’ their skill to others, and ‘vow’ to perform their trade to the highest known standard. With a reputation to uphold, trusted workers of a society who have a specific trade are considered professionals.

        -Wikipedia

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        Yeah I get that, but obviously in the context given here that that definition doesn’t fit what they’re trying to say. Like what is THEIR working definition of profession they’re using where such things as nurses cannot be referred to as professionals?

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    Audiologists? What do they have against people being able to hear? This isn’t a full list, right? Are ENTs not considered professionals too? Tell me dentists are also excluded. Optometrist? Is it really just this one specific doctor? I mean nurses are important, but I’ll admit that society does not respect them, or other non doctor medical professionals, as much. The only word I could think of to describe them in the last sentence was professional.

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      FTA:

      “This means that those doing high-costing degrees, who may no longer receive the same amount as their degree may not be deemed “professional,” could financially struggle to cover the costs—which could deter students from choosing to pursue those high-demand careers.”

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    Who gives a flying fuck what this “man” or this regime says. He’s a traitorous bastard that should be dragged out of office and hung from the neck.

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    Of course he thinks educators aren’t a professional degree. Fucker cannot read bigly! Even if we don’t have gud ejukaters nothing bad can happen, it can only good happen. Slavery and bible is frend.