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Tightening NDIS eligibility will disproportionately affect women – in more ways than you’d expect
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A Conversation article examines Senate inquiry testimony suggesting that proposed NDIS eligibility tightening could disproportionately harm women and girls by entrenching existing gender inequities in the scheme's participation.
Tightening NDIS eligibility will disproportionately affect women – in more ways than you’d expect
Public hearings are underway this week to highlight the impacts of the government’s new National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) bill to tighten eligibility and save costs.
Over the past two days, the Senate inquiry heard that if the bill passes in its current form, it risks entrenching gender inequities in the NDIS and further excluding women and girls.
We have long known the NDIS has a gender problem.
Women and girls only make up 38% of the scheme. Men outnumber women in every age categ
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