1 in 6 Australian female students are raped:
SurveyAFP | Jun 11, 2011, 08.35am IST
Times of India
Times of India
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SYDNEY: About one in six Australian female university students have been raped, and many more sexually assaulted or harassed, during their life, a survey released on Friday showed.
The findings were contained in a National Union of Students poll of more than 1,500 women studying at university. It found that 17% of respondents had been raped and 12% had experienced attempted rape, although the assaults did not necessarily occur while they were at university. The union's women's officer Courtney Sloane said the online survey showed that violence against women was unacceptably high.
"Women at university tend to come from middle-class and upper middle-class social groups, and the survey shows they have experienced sexual assault, harassment , and obsessive behaviours at a high level," she told the Sydney Morning Herald. The study found that 67% of respondents had been through an unwanted sexual experience of some kind, with 31% saying they had had sex when they were, or had felt, unable to consent.
Some 17% of those who completed the survey between September 2010 and March 2011 said they had experienced stalker-like obsessive behaviour. In most cases of sexual assault (56%) the offender was a friend or acquaintance, and in 22% of instances the woman knew the perpetrator intimately, it reported.
SYDNEY: About one in six Australian female university students have been raped, and many more sexually assaulted or harassed, during their life, a survey released on Friday showed.
The findings were contained in a National Union of Students poll of more than 1,500 women studying at university. It found that 17% of respondents had been raped and 12% had experienced attempted rape, although the assaults did not necessarily occur while they were at university. The union's women's officer Courtney Sloane said the online survey showed that violence against women was unacceptably high.
"Women at university tend to come from middle-class and upper middle-class social groups, and the survey shows they have experienced sexual assault, harassment , and obsessive behaviours at a high level," she told the Sydney Morning Herald. The study found that 67% of respondents had been through an unwanted sexual experience of some kind, with 31% saying they had had sex when they were, or had felt, unable to consent.
Some 17% of those who completed the survey between September 2010 and March 2011 said they had experienced stalker-like obsessive behaviour. In most cases of sexual assault (56%) the offender was a friend or acquaintance, and in 22% of instances the woman knew the perpetrator intimately, it reported.
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