{"id":1066,"date":"2017-06-22T09:44:42","date_gmt":"2017-06-22T13:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wordpress\/?p=1066"},"modified":"2017-06-22T12:54:25","modified_gmt":"2017-06-22T16:54:25","slug":"report-women-hold-two-thirds-of-all-student-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/06\/22\/report-women-hold-two-thirds-of-all-student-debt\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Women Hold Two-Thirds of All Student Debt"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1067\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1067\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/femalegraddebtillustration.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1067 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/femalegraddebtillustration-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/femalegraddebtillustration-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/femalegraddebtillustration.jpg 483w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1067\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">iStock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Women hold more student debt and take longer than men to pay it off, according to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aauw.org\/research\/deeper-in-debt\/\">recent report<\/a> from the American Association of University Women.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s encouraging that women are enrolling in college more than ever before, but at the same time they are taking on larger amounts of debt to pay for their dreams,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aauw.org\/article\/new-report-women-and-student-debt\/\">AAUW researcher Kevin Miller said in a press release<\/a>. \u201cBecause of factors like the gender pay gap, debt that could be manageable ends up becoming unmanageable, particularly for women.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Women now earn 57 percent of all bachelor\u2019s degrees awarded by US colleges, but hold almost two-thirds of the country\u2019s $1.3 trillion student debt.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>On average, women take two years longer than men to pay off their student debt, according the AAUW estimates. Black women take on the most debt and \u201cultimately struggle the most to pay it off,\u201d according to the AAUW report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis isn\u2019t just a student problem, it\u2019s a gender inequity problem and it impacts us all,\u201d said AAUW\u2019s Senior Government Relations Manager Anne Hedgepeth. \u201cAs a nation, we rely on women to add to and strengthen our economy. That can\u2019t happen under mountains of student debt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aauw.org\/resource\/deeper-in-debt\/\">Read the full report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Admitted writer\/editor Mary Stegmeir welcomes additional comments and story ideas at<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><em><a style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;\" href=\"mailto:mstegmeir@nacacnet.org\">mstegmeir@nacacnet.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women hold more student debt and take longer than men to pay it off, according to a recent report from the American Association of University Women. \u201cIt\u2019s encouraging that women are enrolling in college more than ever before, but at the same time they are taking on larger amounts of debt to pay for their &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/06\/22\/report-women-hold-two-thirds-of-all-student-debt\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Report: Women Hold Two-Thirds of All Student Debt<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,24,30],"tags":[338,337],"class_list":["post-1066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cost-of-college","category-paying-for-college","category-post-college-outcomes","tag-american-association-of-university-women","tag-student-debt"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Mary Stegmeir","author_link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/author\/mstegmeir\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peWmJq-hc","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}