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The majority of Australians say that would stand up for a victim of harassment, but would they really?
There is not a woman in Australia that does not leave the house practicing her strategies to avoid street harassment, whether it is changing her route home in the dark or the well-worn practice of walking with keys nervously clenched in a tight fist.
Too often the issue of harassment can be trivialised, but experiencing this harassment can be crippling.
- Ruvimbo Togara
- The Canberra Times
A recent Ipsos study showed that 78 per cent of Australian women have experienced at least one street harassment situation.
The intersectional experience is far worse, with that number skyrocketing to 90 per cent for women from two minorities.
As a woman of colour, I…