That's actually pretty bad. The rest of the world is very willing to spend money on American aerospace products and services.
Is it willing to buy gender theory from you for similar amounts of money? If not, the production of specialized majors should not be 1:1.
Even in our "productivity at any cost" society, sometimes people still study things that they find interesting. That's probably a good thing, in the long run.
Do you think its zero sum? We could just put all the gender studies students into engineering and expect them to thrive there?