{"id":9129,"date":"2020-11-12T09:18:35","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T09:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=9129"},"modified":"2020-11-12T09:18:35","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T09:18:35","slug":"uni-enrolment-slump-reveals-gendered-downturn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/11\/12\/uni-enrolment-slump-reveals-gendered-downturn\/","title":{"rendered":"Uni Enrolment Slump Reveals Gendered Downturn"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Greens have responded to new ABS data showing an\u00a0alarming drop<\/a>\u00a0in women studying at university in 2020 as compared to 2019.
\nSenator Mehreen Faruqi, Greens spokesperson for Education, said:<\/strong>
\n\u201cI\u2019ve said from the very start that women have borne the brunt of the impacts of Covid-19.
\n\u201cThese numbers challenge the assumption that people will enrol to study when there\u2019s an economic downturn. Women are still doing much of the unpaid care work during these hard times. They are the ones now having to give up the opportunity to go to uni.
\n\u201cThe government\u2019s plan to hike up university fees and cut funding for courses with a high proportion of women enrolled will be another barrier to university education.
\n\u201cWith the Covid recession rolling on, the government should be making it easier for women to go to uni, not hiking up fees and cutting course funding,\u201d she said.
\nSenator Larissa Waters, Greens spokesperson for Women, said:<\/strong>
\n\u201cThe Morrison Government never thinks twice about how its policies will disproportionately disadvantage women and widen the gender pay gap, and the increase in uni fees is a perfect example.
\n\u201cYou don\u2019t find inequities if you don\u2019t look for them, and that\u2019s why this Government needs more women in Cabinet and a Women\u2019s Budget Impact Statement to reveal the gendered impacts of their decisions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Greens have responded to new ABS data showing an\u00a0alarming drop\u00a0in women studying at university in 2020 as compared to 2019. Senator Mehreen Faruqi, Greens spokesperson for Education, said: \u201cI\u2019ve said from the very start that women have borne the brunt of the impacts of Covid-19. \u201cThese numbers challenge the assumption that people will enrol … Continue reading “Uni Enrolment Slump Reveals Gendered Downturn”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}