How Many More Women?

In this powerful and accessible exploration of our legal systems, two human rights lawyers break open the big judgments, developments and trends that have and continue to silence and disadvantage women.

HOW MANY MORE WOMEN

have to be raped or abused before we act?

need to accuse him before we believe her?

will be failed by the criminal justice system?

need to say something before we do something?

will be sued for defamation for speaking out?

will be contracted to silence?

From two internationally acclaimed lawyers comes a masterful and urgent exploration of the legal response to the MeToo movement in Australia and around the world.

We are in a crucial moment: women are breaking through the cultural reticence to speak out about gender-based violence. But as they have grown empowered to speak, a new form of systematic silencing has become more evident: the spike in survivors speaking out has been followed by a sp