Women to be hit harder by University fee increases

I came across this article over at the communist conversation:

Higher Education changes another hit for Australian Women

The underlying message is that women will be hit harder for services they use.  So, studying that gender studies degree, racking up $40k debt and then not getting a job with enough earning potential to pay for it may not be a good idea, as it turns out.

Considering that it's a user pays system, women who CHOOSE to study degrees that don't directly lead to high paying jobs can not then complain when they realise the choice they made doesn't pay off.

I could pay to study how to fix old CRT televisions and hope that someone somewhere will need their old CRT televisions fixed, enough that I can afford to make a living and pay back my course fees, but the reality is that a market will only pay as much as demand is present.  If there aren't any people needing CRT televisions repaired (because when they finally break down people replace them with LCDs) then I'll either end up on unemployment benefits or I'll have to get re-trained to do something else.

I do love it how it's a gender issue because of the issue of too many women making bad choices.  If too many men make a short-sighted decision and lose out the general opinion is that it's tough luck.  Since it's women on the receiving end of the problem, apparently we need to re-think the system.