Summarising the evidence: exploring what we know about drivers of violence against women, family violence and other forms of gendered violence

Project Team

Project directors: AIFS (Australian Institute of Family Studies)

Project team:

Monash team: Bridget Harris

Project contact:

Bridget Harris

Bridget.Harris@monash.edu

About this project

Summarising the evidence: exploring what we know about drivers of violence against women, family violence and other forms of gendered violence starts from the position that frameworks and actions used to prevent men’s violence against women are also effective in helping prevent other forms of family and gendered violence. However, more work is needed to understand the ways that other forms of oppression and inequality such as racism, colonialism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism and ageism work with and alongside the gendered drivers of men’s violence against women. Specifically:

  • how might this help us to improve approaches to preventing different forms of interpersonal violence and the ways they are experienced by different cohorts in the community?
  • to what extent might addressing the gendered drivers of violence against women help to also prevent other forms of family and gendered violence?
    Respect Victoria commissioned evidence reviews to help understand what we know – and don’t know – about the prevalence, nature, drivers, and risk factors of different forms of violence against women, family and gendered violence. We did this to help explore:
  • how addressing the gendered drivers of violence against women may help prevent other forms of family and gendered violence
  • where further work is needed to identify distinct drivers and reinforcing factors for these other forms of violence
  • what the opportunities might be to build on existing work to strengthen the prevention evidence, policy and practice.

This suite of resources includes 8 research summaries, each focused on a particular form of violence against women or family violence:

  • adolescent violence in the home
  • child maltreatment
  • elder abuse
  • men’s intimate partner violence against women
  • non-partner sexual assault against women
  • online violence and harassment perpetrated against women
  • sexual harassment in the workplace
  • women’s intimate partner violence against men

Monash (Bridget Harris) examined online violence and harassment perpetrated against women.

Research aims

This research sought to look at definitions, nature, prevalence, and dynamics of online violence and harassment perpetrated against women, and develop a solid evidence base to understand and prevent this harm.

Funding Acknowledgment

Respect Victoria