We Asked 4 Women Gender Diverse People What Barriers Aussie Gals NB Folks Face In 2022

This week marks the 10th year of International Day of the Girl and while a lot of progress has been made for the rights of young women in Australia in the last decade, there is still a lot of work left to do to dismantle gender-based barriers. New research by girls’ quality charity Plan International Australia found while visibility for young women’s rights has risen and is being driven by girls themselves, young Australians are still facing deep, systemic inequities in everyday life and spaces. The number of women in the House of Representatives has boosted to 38 per cent and pregnancies in people ages 15-19 have halved since 2012. But rates of sexual assault have increased by 22 per cent — which is also known to be severely underreported — and young women have the highest rates of hospitalisation from intentional self-harm across all age groups. So what are the major problems and barriers young women and gender-diverse people are facing in Australia in 2022? We went along to the International Day of the Girl 10-year breakfast to ask the panel’s experts exactly that. “I think a lack of education around the issues women face and the reason why we face them,” proud Wangkumara/Barkindji woman and Indigenous health advocate Gabrielle Ebsworth

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We end today’s @PlanAustralia #InternationalDayoftheGirl panel on #Mahsa_Amini‌, Iran and how to support the women and girls around the world @shesthebodzilla @sarahinthesen8 pic.twitter.com/Vd16sDVr4e

— futurewomen (@FutureWomen) October 10, 2022

April Hélène-HortonAshleigh Streeter-JonesRaise Our VoiceaskElly Desmarchelier 

“We sit here. We’re all very privileged. But women with disabilities are still living in institutions. They are silenced. They are ignored. You will never see them.” @EDesmarchelier @PlanAustralia #InternationalDayoftheGirl pic.twitter.com/onxBUZrUMm

— futurewomen (@FutureWomen) October 10, 2022

Darcy VescioPlan International Australia’s website

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