Fair Sex at the Receiving End

Country: - Australia

National Union of Students' poll of more than 1500 female university students 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.

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 behavior at a high level” she told.

Women seem to be at the receiving end even now – whether it is a developed and literate world or an underdeveloped illiterate society. Unless they are physically trained and equipped with self defence methods, this sort of aggressive postures and ill-treatment at the hands of male members in the vicinity and at work places will be a daily occurrence and nobody could help it.