Do you feel safe walking home at night? Men and women have very different answers

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In Australia, 80 per cent of men say they feel safe walking alone at night. But just 50 per cent of women say the same.

The rape and murder of 22-year-old Eurydice Dixon in Melbourne last week has prompted a national outcry, and a discussion about attitudes to personal safety.

The gap between how men and women feel about their safety when walking alone at night is higher in Australia than in any of the 38 countries included in the OECD's Better Life Index.

And that includes countries with much higher homicide rates, such as Mexico, Brazil and Russia.

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Topics: crime, community-and-society, melbourne-3000