No one escaped COVID's impacts, but big fall in tertiary enrolments was 80% women. Why?
- Written by Brendan Churchill, Research Fellow in Sociology, University of Melbourne
Ersin Tekkol/ShutterstockThe disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has been so profound, particularly for women, that it threatens to upend the progress on gender equality in recent years. During the lockdown, women were doing more of the unpaid labour – care and housework. They were also more exposed to the risks of coronavirus either...





