'Blurred Lines': The Intersections of Gendered Harm in Rural Australia

In this article, author Skye Saunders explains the unique and intricate challenges encountered by Australian women who work in rural areas, typically in a workplace peopled almost entirely by males. The circumstances faced by female workers in the outback are relatively extreme; such women are isolated, working far away from population centers under the eyes of males who hold a macho mentality and consider sexual harassment a sport. It is no surprise, then, that such female workers experience high levels of sexual harassment and other gender based victimization.