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A free resource supporting local governments to prevent violence against women in their workplaces and communities.
Gender-based violence includes a wide range of behaviours, such as dating violence, physical and sexual violence, image-based abuse and sexual harassment. Gender-based violence includes violence against young and adult women, as well as violence experienced by lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ) people.
Violence against women is the most common form of gender-based violence in Australia and is typically perpetrated by a current or former intimate, male partner. The evidence shows that violence against women is much more likely to occur when power, opportunities and resources are not shared equally between men and women in society and when women are not valued and respected as much as men.
Evidence shows that violence against women is much more likely to occur when power, opportunities and resources are not shared equally between men and women in society, and when women are not valued and respected as much as men.
Research tells us that there are four key drivers of violence against women.
These four drivers impact our experiences, as well as influence the cultures of our organisations, our institutions and our community more broadly. This is true for all schools, which are both education institutions and workplaces.
How might this look in school?
How might this look in school?
How might this look in school?
For some men, making jokes and comments that reinforce the idea that women should be valued less than them is a way of bonding and gaining the approval and respect of their peers, creating spaces for violence against girls and women to occur.
How might this look in school?
Through age-appropriate curriculum, modelling respectful relationships and implementing a whole of school approach to this work, respectful relationships education can:
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