More girls than boys in India want to become psychologists or journalists: Cambridge survey -Kritika Sharma

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The global survey shows 83.4% of Indian boys aspire to be software developers while 91.2% girls want to be psychiatrists.

New Delhi: More girls than boys in India want to become journalists, psychiatrists/psychologists, teachers and lawyers, a recently conducted global survey has revealed.

More boys chose to be software developers, engineers, pilots and entrepreneurs in the survey.

When it comes to overall career choice, however, engineer and doctor topped the chart.

As per the survey, 91.2 per cent girls opted to be psychiatrists against 8.8 per cent boys, while for journalism it was 77.7 per cent girls against 23.3 per cent boys. For software developer as a career choice, 83.4 per cent boys showed interest as against 16.6 per cent girls, for engineering it was 78.9 per cent boys as compared to 21.9 per cent girls.

 

 

In terms of overall career choices, however, most students — 23.5 per cent opted for engineering. In the overall choice graph, 5.1 per cent wanted to be journalists and 3.8 per cent wanted to be psychiatrists.

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