The whole reason why getting a degree is a requirement for employment is that we told too many people to go to college and get a degree in whatever because you "need to go to college". Its a vicious cycle.

This is not to say that Gender Studies is "useless". If Gender Studies people manage to get some internships and work experience then their chances of finding work after college is very high with them learning what they wanted to learn in college. Cool!

The problem is that pushing people who don't want to go to college or don't have a solid idea of what they want to do to go to college anyway is dangerous. The first reason is that college is a very expensive place to be while having no clue on what you want to do in life. Staying at home and taking a work/gap year is most often $0 and gives you time to mature, explore the world, and think about what you want to do. College costs thousands of dollars per semester to attend, so if you aren't really working towards something, you're not only burning money but burning time that can be spent doing something useful instead.

These people tend to collect in liberal arts majors such as Communications or (insert identity here) Studies because these degrees have a reputation for being "easy".

My cousin gradated with a degree in... General Studies and as a result is stuck as a bank teller because he left school with 0 employable skills, 0 internship experience, and a degree that is connected to very little to no fields. He spent four years of college playing college basketball while wondering what he wanted to do in life and when it came time to graduate he was fucked.