More than 90 percent of women who are in Sydney’s city centre after dark feel unsafe. This is a key finding of the Unsafe in the City report, which was commissioned by humanitarian organisation Plan International, and released today as part of International Day of the Girl Child.
The report analysed women's experiences in five of the world's major cities: Delhi, Kampala, Lima, Madrid and Sydney, by asking women under 30 to drop pins on places they deem good or bad. Sydney respondents dropped 2,038 pins on the Sydney map and 75 percent of these places were considered bad.
The threat of sexual harassment, with and without physical contact, was the main issue identified with bad pins. 71 percent of respondents reported being sexually harassed in those places.