Reports of rape, domestic abuse and murdered women are way up in Brazil, Mexico, Peru and beyond since the coronavirus. But Latin America has long been one of the most dangerous places to be a woman.
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Frontline services report that more women are using online or telephone support for family violence during the second lockdown, while more men are also seeking help for abusive behaviour.
The Gender Equality Act in Victoria creates an obligation to understand how gender affects needs and experiences, and to design, assess and manage public spaces so women feel safe in those places.
Stay-at-home orders and social distancing make technology all the more important for maintaining human connections. They also make it easier for abusers to use technology against their victims.
In Mexico City, feminist groups spray-painted the names of Mexico’s murdered women on the pavement of the Zócalo, the capital city’s enormous main square, during the International Women’s Day March.
It’s dehumanising when cartoonists use images of sexual violence to make broad-brush comments about society.
The Australian government has committed funding to men’s behaviour change programs in the wake of the murder of Hannah Clarke and her children – but what are they and do they work?
Two interventions proved effective in reducing men’s perpetration, but not women’s experiences of violence.
Government policy must do more to reflect the fact that rape isn’t just something that happens to women and girls.
A Chilean feminist anthem is being sung across the world in protest at violence against women.
Thirty years after the Montreal Massacre that killed 14 women, new threats such as the incel movement pose dangers to the feminist movement.
While we remember the women murdered 30 years ago, we shouldn’t ignore those short, terse paragraphs in the news that describe the everyday, routine violence inflicted upon women.
Mattel created a new line of dolls because of research suggesting kids don’t want toys ‘dictated by gender norms’ – but supplanting those norms will take a lot more than that.
On Dec. 6, 1989, 14 women were murdered at École Polytechnique. Women in a mechanical engineering class were targeted, and 30 years later the ratio of women to men in engineering hasn’t improved much.
Engineering is in a better place than in 1989. More women are studying the field, and academic administrators and managers want to hire female engineers. But more work is still needed.
The media presents female victims as culpable for their own brutalisation. For Grace Millane, this meant her sexual preferences were more important than the horror of her death
For every 100 men, up to 25 have raped or pressured a woman into sex.
Same old rape myths, same old victim blaming.
Research has a distinctive role to play because it gives pointers on what is needed to create long-term change.
While it’s important to protect vulnerable children from exposure to further harm, it’s also important to give them a voice to speak about their own trauma from domestic violence.
Kontributor teratas
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Professor, Family and Sexual Violence, RMIT University
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Professor of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Monash University, Monash University
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Professor of Social Work; Leneen Forde Chair in Child & Family Research, Griffith University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor and Research Leadership Chair, Sociology, University of Guelph
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Professor of Criminology, Durham University
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Professor of Communication Studies; Research Chair on Intersectionality, Violence and Resistance, Concordia University
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Associate Professor in Criminal Law, Durham University
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Professor, Center for Research on North America, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
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Associate professor in Criminology, The University of Melbourne
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Eleanor Rathbone Chair of Sociology, University of Liverpool
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Lead Researcher with the Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre and Lecturer in Criminology at the Faculty of Arts, Monash University, Monash University
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Lecturer in Criminology, The University of Melbourne
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Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology, Durham University
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Associate Professor of Global Health, UCL
