Thursday, 14 January 2021, 10:02 am
A century of sexual abuse of women in New Zealand is
analysed in a University of Auckland study.
The
newly-published research looks back as far as 1922 by
analysing interviews with thousands of women about their
lifetime experiences.
The study indicates that one in
six New Zealand women experience sexual violence from an
intimate partner during their lifetime, a rate that has
remained remarkably constant over the past
century.
Rates of child sexual abuse and non-partner
sexual assault seem to have declined slightly but remain
alarmingly high at 1 in 5 for child sexual abuse and 1 in 14
for non-partner sexual assault, according to Associate