18 Introduction Some Facts in the Case 19 treats class,or race,or North-South global relationships as if gender did not matter,is obsolete-and dangerous.For the facts Education,Labour Market and Finance of gender do not go away.Aid programs to Third World countries, by ignoring gender in principle,in fact give resources to men (pp.8-11).Figures on illiteracy and post-secondary education (recalcu- rather than to women.Industrial and nationalist militancy that lated)from UNESCO Statistical Yearbook,(1984),tables 1.3 and ignores questions of gender reinforces men's violence and the 1.4:various years for different countries.Labour-force participation patterns of masculinity that lie behind it.The question of human statistics from the World Bank's World Tables,(1980),pp.460-5. survival,in the face of a global arms race and widespread Australian occupational segregation figures from Social Indicalors, environmental destruction,requires us to understand a play of (1984),p.178;for a revicw of segregation in the Australian labour social forces in which gender has a major part. market see the Women's Bureau report on The Role of Women in the Econom,(1981),pp.22-33.International data and quotations from OECD document Women and Employmenl,(1980),p.42.Newland (1980)is an excellent short introduction to the sexual division of labour on a world scale.Material on financial discrimination from NOTES Niland (1983)and report in the Australian,(4 February 1983). Crimes of Violence Introductory (p.I).On how easy it is to fall into stereotypes about 'typical girls',see (pp.11-14).Domestic violence statistics:United Statcs,Straus (1978), Griffin's book of that name (1985). p.446.Scotland,Dobash and Dobash (1979).Police station figures from Report of the NSW Task Force on Domestic Violence (1981). A Teenager and her Family This report,and Scutt (1983),compile the scattered Australian evidence.Rape statistics:Australia,Year Book Australia,(1985),p. (pp.1-6).This study is based on intervicws from the research described 221.United States,Statistical Abstract of the United Staltes (1985). in Connell,Ashenden,Kessler and Dowsett (1982).Sec two papers National sexual assault estimate from ABS Cat.4505.0,Crime Victims with a focus on gender and education:Connell et al.(1981)and Survey,Australia,1983,Preliminary,(1984).Homicides and assaults: Kessler ct al.(1985). ABS Cat.4505.0;ABS Cat.3303.0,Causes of Death,(1983);ABS Cat.4502.1,Higher Criminal Courts,NSW,1983;NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research longitudinal study on homicide by Wallace (1986);Statistical Abstract of the US,(1980,1985). The Public World:Incomes and Wealth (pp.6-7).Statistics on Australian earnings and work-force from the Homophobia Australian Burcau of Statistics (hereafter ABS)Cataloguc 6101.0, Labour Statistics,(1978),p.71;and from ABS Cat.4101.0,Social (pp.12-13).Sydney and NSW statistics on court cases in Bureau of Indicators,4 (1984),pp.171,192,213,214.The adjustment for Crime Statistics and Research (1978/9),pp.10,33-7.Patterns of people with no income is based on 1981 census figures for women oppression of homosexual people are documented in the remarkable and men aged fifteen and over,in ABS Cat.2443.0,Census-Summary report of the NSW Anti-Discrimination Board(1982).Canadian raids Characteristics of Persons and Dwellings,(1983).The ILO study is documented in Body Politic,94 (1983);105 (1984);117 (1985).New summarized in Women at Work,1 (1983),pp.4-5.Eastern Europcan York beatings and other harassment are documented by Rosen figures quoted by Molyneux(1981).The Latin American study,with (1980-81).Gay Hotline phone-in 19 to 21 July 1985 report by Police figures dating from 1968-72,is summarized in Latin American and Gay Liaison Unit(NSW Police Community Relations Burcau press Caribbean Women's Collective (1980),p.182. relcase)