Closing gender pay gaps fuels domestic violence, pointing to the deep challenges to stop the societal scourge.
studies that found a third of Australian women agreed with the statement: if a woman earns more than her husband, it is almost certain to cause a problem.Australia is, in fact, an outlier: more than half of the women surveyed from across the globe said male partners do not cope well when gender pay gaps begin to be eliminated.
This perverse outcome is one of the reasons the former head of research at the Australian Institute of Criminology, Dr Hayley Boxall, describes violence against women as “nefarious”.Just how wicked gender violence is was on show this week in spades as government leaders scrambled to respond to the recent spate of deaths.The federal government took the pragmatic approach and made permanent a Morrison government pilot that provides $5000 in cash and supports for women escaping male violence.
Central to this approach is a much more tough-minded response to the many red flags that typically are highly evident when women are being increasingly abused., first used to fight gun and gang violence. These are now being successfully applied in US states to combat domestic violence and homicides. But as former NSW digital minister Victor Dominello this week observed there is a fundamental design problem with traditional portfolio government.
This throws up a raft of privacy and practical challenges but goes to the heart of how future data-centric governments can and should work.This approach instead sees government as a vast suite of interconnected services – designed for users and communities and not government.There was no sign of this type of big-picture thinking from first ministers at this week’s national cabinet.
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