In this assessment, the students will be assessed on their knowledge of the role of gender inequality and on domestic and family violence frameworks in working with specific vulnerable groups. This...

Gender Inequality and Domestic Violence
Background
Domestic and family violence is a pervasive human rights violation in Australia. Despite attempts to target and mitigate these violent behaviours in Australia, their prevalence remains at unacceptable levels (Dlamini, 2020). It is often the consequence of or has deep background in, policies or laws that explicitly limit women's opportunities and rights, and it is sustained and propagated currently through frameworks that strive to reinforce and organise an unequal range of social, political, and economic resources and power between women and men (Semahegn et al., 2019).
This paper focuses on the gender-related issue of family and domestic violence in Australian region, examining and analysing how gender inequality relates with family and domestic violence, involving the relevant prevalence, risk factors, and influence of family and domestic violence in relation with certain groups.
Conceptual Framework
Nearly 95 percent of every victim of domestic violence, either woman or man, is assaulted by a man perpetrator. Female and male victims have diverse experiences with violence: males experience violence predominantly from other males in public areas, while females experience violence mainly from males they know (generally an existing or former partner) in private areas (Dlamini, 2020). Females are more likely than males to be helpless, admitted to hospitals, or even killed by an abusive partner. Gender violence appears to be reaching a critical juncture in Australia. Frontier violence frequently resulted in the economic and sexual exploitation of Indigenous females, who had become highly susceptible to gender-based violence when cut off from kinship networks (Kuskoff & Parsell, 2019).
Additionally, violence against females is commonly depicted as a universal and timeless phenomenon. This creates the notion that the issue is too significant to resolve, or that simply the heinous violenec are worth paying attention to. Family and domestic violence are generally alluded to as a "silent outbreak" that is overtaking Australia (Mshweshwe, 2020). Individually, a silenced culture implies that victims are frequently too ashamed or afraid to voice out, and individuals are too conflicted or uncomfortable to do such things. This can allude that gender violence had been earlier overlooked in Australia, and that it has been only lately acknowledged as a social issue. As Australian scholarship emerged in the 1970s, scholars began to unearth a wealth of sources on the ordinary routine of Australian women, such as their experiences with sexual, family, as well as other types of violence (Sardinha & Nájera Catalán, 2018).
Attempts to curb gender violence have historically failed since legislation has failed to deal with the underlying factors that enable this violence-prone culture. Gender-based wealth disparity in the early Australian community was another important factor. Henceforth, the low-paying and limited nature of females' work discouraged many from dropping abusive males or their kids. When spouses were accused of assault, women would frequently petition prosecutors for clemency to prevent economic ruin if the household breadwinner was imprisoned (Mshweshwe, 2020).
Role of Gender Inequality in FDV
Gender inequality causes violence against females, such as imbalanced power relationships between women and men, traditional gender archetypes, standards, and hierarchical structures, and assigning women lower social status. Encouraging and attaining gender equality is a crucial facet of preventing violence against females (Sardinha & Nájera Catalán, 2018). Men-on-women domestic violence pertains to be more probable to cause death or serious injury, whilst women-on-women violence or abuse appears to contribute to men's suicide. Since males are inclined to engage in violence more frequently than females, a male hitting a female is more likely to...