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1. Woman art students rated their commitment to a career at the very highest level and also claimed that their schools had provided them with inadequate career counselling.
2. More male art students, than male psychology students, felt that they would not be able to earn a living in their field of study.
3. Woman art students expressed concern that they had been inadequately counselled to function in those careers.
4. The male art students’ negative responses about earning a living in their field might reflect a similar lack of career information.
5. 97% of the woman claimed they already thought of themselves as artists, while just 79% of the men did.
6. Only 62% of the art students felt able to earn a living in art, while 66% of the English and 88% of the psychology students felt able to earn a living in their fields.
7. 82% of the art students felt that they had had inadequate career counselling in their schools, as compared with only 59% of the English students and 68% of the psychology students.