People who would be bothered by a friend telling a sexist joke

3.5 People actively challenge attitudes and behaviours that enable violence including gendered stereotypes and norms, cisgenderism and heteronormativity.

Increased bystander willingness to challenge attitudes and behaviours that involve harmful gendered stereotypes.

Proportion of people who would be bothered by a friend telling a sexist joke.

An increase in the proportion of people who would be bothered by a friend telling a sexist joke indicates improvements in community attitudes towards harmful gendered stereotypes.

There is little room for improvement in this measure. At the baseline, a large proportion of respondents said they would be bothered by a friend telling a sexist joke. The intention for including this measure is to continue monitoring people’s attitudes, and to ensure that it does not decrease over time.

2021

The number of people who said they would be bothered by a friend telling a sexist joke.

Data element: Person—attitudes
Data source: NCAS
Data source type: Survey

Number of people aged 16 years and over.

Data element: Person
Data source: NCAS
Data source type: Survey

This measure is the number of people who would be bothered by a friend telling a sexist joke expressed as a percentage of all people aged 16 years and over.

100 x (Numerator/Denominator)

For each reference period, nationally, by: 

• state and territory
• gender 
• age
• disability status
• sexuality
• remoteness.

The NCAS sample consists of Australians aged 16 years or over.
The bystander items in 2021 focused on the same two scenarios included in 2017, asking about respondents’ reactions if they were to witness a male friend telling a sexist joke (Friend sexist joke).

For some population groups, numbers may be too small to be reported on separately.