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Educational institutions and government do too little: discrimination and study dropout student mothers

Educational institutions and government are not doing enough to combat dropout and discrimination against student mothers and pregnant female students. This is according to the research report presented today at the Studying Mothers Conference. Pregnancy and motherhood is still too much seen as the students’ own choice, their own responsibility. It seems that the “eigen […]

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Formal maternity leave in mbo at last

Recently, the Minister of Education, Culture and Science announced that she will legislate a formal right to maternity leave for students in the mbo. The law will explicitly include maternity leave of up to 16 weeks as a reason for extended absences. According to Annemieke de Jong of the Steunpunt Studerende Moeders, this is a […]

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Studying mother gets to continue studying thanks to intervention PILP

A student’s mother had been deregistered from her secondary vocational education program because she had been absent too often. Caring for her two young children was not considered permissible absence by the institution, even when the children were sick. This is a problem faced by many student mothers. Here, then, seems to be gender-specific discrimination. […]

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