Title
How mainstream law makes Aboriginal women ‘disappear’
Document Type
Article
Publication details
Nielsen, JM 2004, 'How mainstream law makes Aboriginal women ‘disappear’', Indigenous Law Bulletin, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 213-215.
Peer Reviewed
Peer-Reviewed
Abstract
That an Aboriginal woman may experience discrimination precisely because she is an Aboriginal woman[1] is beyond the grasp of discrimination laws which do not recognise that race and gender (and other characteristics) may have a combined effect on the experience of an Aboriginal woman. Instead, Australian discrimination laws treat the discrimination suffered by a woman as being a universal experience that occurs only on account of her gender.