@georgeob1,
What a silly response, george, but, then I have come to expect responses from you that arise out of your own ego and have nothing to do with reality.
It is interesting that you find political science one some sort of "fashionable" level.
I have no idea whether or not women's studies are still "fashionable" but I know why women were taking such a course in the 70s and 80s: because it was a group major. Generally, a group major means taking many credits more than the standard major and combining them in such a way as to allow the subjects to support each other. At the heart of every group major is a core that is the equivalent or near equivalent of a standard major in terms of hours (30 or 32). Women's study majors usually emphasized literature or history.
BTW, I knew a woman at the University of Michigan (class of 1969) who was among the first women to go into an MBA program. She had made up her mind in high school to earn an MBA, an unusual course for the class of 1965. She majored in psychology for two reasons: 1.) she thought that the business is nothing more than approaching the market from the psychological level and 2.) if she found business was not the career for her, she could become a therapist. She had two minors: French and journalism. She also saw all business as communication. She approached the study as a license she would receive after a demanding undergraduate career. In other words, as a key to unlock the door while she stood on a strong intellectual foundation.
Three friends of mine also earned MBAs. One holds a bachelor's in English from Smith. She was working in publishing when she met her husband. Publishing paid starvation wages and he was still in the Army, so she quit to become a wife and mother. Later, she started writing a business column for the local paper after the editor came to know her from town meetings. That experience made her decide to pursue business. I no longer know what happened to her.
The next is also a Smith alumna from the class after the woman described above. She majored in art and married a physician who pursued her. She actually loved his family and not him. He left her and stopped practicing medicine in order to no longer pay child support. She earned a certificate in programming. The MBA came about because she saw others promoted above her. Neither woman earned her MBA at what might be considered a "good school," but rather one that was convenient. Neither had difficulties with the subject matter.
The final woman went to high school and college with me. She had always intended to teach business ethics. She majored in Economics, then earned a master's degree in theology. She was teaching business ethics at our alma mater when the administration urged her earn a doctorate in economics. As her own children were beginning college, and as the health of her diabetic husband was deteriorating, she decided to skip the doctorate and earn an MBA at the local state university for economic reasons.
Now, none of these women follow what I have seen, and continue to see, as the stereotypical business major. Intellectually, I am in awe of each of these women.
