When I was thinking about what classes to take in high school (in the early 80s I think) my dad told me to take typing because it was useful- you can always find a job as a secretary. A woman can is the qualifier there. He of course never told my brothers that. No one asked what I was going to be or do. I was forced to go to the Mennonite college my parents wanted me to go to. There was no real consideration of cost or what I wanted to do- it was about the people I’d be around