Type:	Non-Fiction
Title:	Women in Australia 2004
Authors:	Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Office of the Status of Women
Keywords:	Sexual assault;Indigenous issues;Mental health;Statistics;Regional rural and remote areas;Homicide;CALD (culturally and linguistically diverse);Health;Overview
Population:	Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
Year:	2004
Publisher:	Commonwealth of Australia : Canberra
Notes:	This publication consists of 9 chapters, drawing together statistical information on women in Australia such as their population characteristics, family and living arrangements, health, working life, economic resources, education and training, management and decision making, crime and safety and selected population groups (women from countries where English is not the main language, people in rural areas, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples). Chapter 8 looks in particular at crime and safety. In 2001, female victims of homicide (45%) were more likely than male homicide victims (15%) to have been killed by a family member. The ABS (Australian Bureau of Statistics) conducted the Women’s Safety Survey in 1996 and found that: 23% of women who were currently or had been in a previous relationship had experienced physical and/or sexual violence from a partner; over two-thirds (68%) of those women who experienced violence from a previous partner had children in their care during the relationship, with almost all of these women indicating that the children had witnessed the violence. The Survey also found that when comparing women’s general health against women who had not experienced violence, abused women had: worse general physical and mental health; higher rates of depression, anxiety, self harm and suicidal ideation; higher rates of problematic or disordered eating; higher rates of smoking and heavy alcohol use; and higher rates of sleeping difficulty.
Contents:	Chapter 1: Population Characteristics Chapter 2: Family and Living Arrangements Chapter 3: Health Chapter 4: Working Life Chapter 5: Economic Resources Chapter 6: Education and Training Chapter 7: Management and Decision Making Chapter 8: Crime and Safety (with sections on Women in Prison, Recorded Victims of Crime, Women and Family Violence and the Women's Safety Survey, 1996, Victims of Sexual and all Assault, Violence and Young Women, Violence and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women, and Violence and the Cost to Health) Chapter 9: Selected Population Groups.
URI:	https://anrows.intersearch.com.au/anrowsjspui/handle/1/11551
ISBN:	9781877042959
Physical description:	142 p.
Appears in Collections:	Books

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