Eps 1: There are many female college students raped in Australia
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The statistics show that the number of sexual assaults on university campuses in the past two years was twice as high as the number of universities across the country, the study said.
A quarter of students were harassed in university environments, including while traveling or organizing events on campus, while one in six students were sexually harassed in university environments. College students are twice as likely to be raped or assaulted on campus as non-college students. A quarter of women who were raped or sexually harassed in 2015 - 16 were assaulted on the university campus. The risk of rape was five times higher during a semester abroad than during a week abroad, and four times higher on a college campus than on a campus during the same period, according to the study. More than half of all attempted sexual assaults in the last two years involved attempted or actual rape, with 1.5% of total rapes and 3.6% of attempted rapes resulting in attempted rape.
Most of the bullies were also students, but the sexual assaults on traveling students were mostly foreigners.
When victims of sexual assault are intoxicated, both male and female students are often held more accountable. In one study, college men who committed sexual assault while intoxicated expected alcohol to increase male-female sexuality more than those who were sober, while another study did not.
In line with previous authors, Newcombe and colleagues found that victims of sexual assault were more likely to be blamed than strangers, acquaintances, and marital rapes. Sakalli Ugurlu and colleagues investigated the effects of empathy for rape victims on male and female college students and found that women performed significantly better in empathy for rape. Miller and colleagues tested this further in 2011, reporting that rape victims' empathy was positively associated with sexual assault experiences and perceived similarities, but negatively with rape myths and acceptance.
Research by Pryor et al. reported that perceptions of sexual harassment and assault varied across Australia and North America. They also found that Australians, Germans, North Americans and Europeans . Another study that examined the impact of rape myths on male and female college students "empathy for rape reached similar findings to those of American researchers.
Australia says the findings are "shocking but not surprising," adding that many survivors do not report assaults and play down their own experiences as not serious due to shock, disbelief and the impact of trauma. Ms Contos told AFR Weekend Australia's schools are in the grip of a rape epidemic, with assaults largely carried out by "legitimate opportunists" who force female students to have sex and attack them when they are unconscious. What many don't know is that these teachers continue their tirades about the culture of rape.
Since the petition went online, more than 200 women have reached out to accounts to share their experiences of rape and sexual assault at Brewer College, and more than 30,000 students have responded. A Snapchat post believed to have been from a male pupil at the school aimed at a gathering: "Today at Brewer's the gathering called on the boys to stand up and apologise to girls for rape, sexual assault and so on. According to the report, one in five students is sexually harassed in a university environment and one in six has been sexually harassed in their environment, including while traveling around campus.
According to data from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, which found 17 per cent of women experienced sexual violence, police recorded 25,000 sexual assault victims in 2015 - 16 more than the year before. Compared to men in college, women in college are more likely to experience attempted or attempted rape and sexual assault. Up to 1.5 million female students in Australia have been victims of rape or attempted rape since they started their studies, according to research by the University of Queensland.
A national survey of 31,000 students found that half of all students were sexually harassed at least once at university in 2016. Fifty-one percent of students were molested during their first year of college, the commission found, and one in four students were molested in their university environment. In 2016, more than a third of female students at Australia's public universities were sexually assaulted.