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Reading, writing – and gender studies

1 October 2020

2:53 PM

1 October 2020

2:53 PM

Let’s play a game of spot the odd one out and see how you go. 

New South Wales Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi, lamenting university funding cuts, yesterday tweeted:

“Yet more devastating uni cuts. This time to valuable courses like maths, IT, gender studies and science.”

One of these things is not like the others.

If you picked “gender studies” as not belonging in a sentence about “valuable courses” like mathematics, IT and science, you’d be right.

This is not to say that a Bachelor (or is it a Bachelorette?) in Arts majoring in gender studies is not valuable.

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