Women and Legal Aid: Identifying Disadvantage

法律援助方面的性别偏见已被确定为妇女社会不平等的一个根源。然而，由于法律援助预算有限，对性别偏见的关注焦点必须变成是否有任何特定的妇女群体在获得法律援助方面处于不利地位。该项目将确定目前法律援助供资做法对农村和地区妇女、土著妇女和其他妇女群体的影响，以便查明未满足的需求，并协助更好地利用稀缺资源。研究结果将为今后制定法律援助政策和为处境最不利的妇女提供服务提供宝贵的投入。

Gender bias in legal aid provision has been identified as a source of women's social inequality. Given restricted legal aid budgets, however, the focus of concerns about gender bias must become whether any particular groups of women are disadvantaged in access to legal aid. This project will determine the impact of current legal aid funding practices on rural and regional women, Indigenous women, and other groups of women, in order to identify unmet needs, and assist in the better targeting of scarce resources. The results of the research will provide a valuable input into the future development of legal aid policy and services for the most disadvantaged women.