"You're just constantly on alert": Women and Gender-Diverse People's Experiences of Sexual Violence on Public Transport.

ABSTRACT: Sexual violence is a public health issue that can be experienced across the life course. Public transport is a key site of sexual violence and harassment experienced by women and gender-diverse people in Australia, although victim-survivor voices have rarely been sought in addressing this issue. Through in-depth qualitative interviews with 41 diverse female and gender-diverse victim-survivors who were staff or students at two Australian universities, we sought to understand their experiences of sexual violence and harassment on public transport. We found that women and gender-diverse people, while often reporting on a significant experience of sexual violence or harassment on public transport, also had other, "everyday" experiences across their life course that impacted how they traveled a

SUBMITTER: Ison J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10515455 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature