How has use of the term "white privilege" harmed you?

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124. Usually welfare safety nets provide better for women...

for a long time in Australia, the aged pension was available to women when they turned 60, and to men when they turned 65. Today the gap has been narrowed, women are entitled to the pension at 64.5 years of age and men at 65.

Upwards of 75% of those who receive below-subsistence welfare entitlements in Australia are men, although typically this is because women are care of children.

About 80% of rough sleepers are men, and there is a general priority in favour of women for shelters and crisis and public housing, although again this is largely because women are in care of children.

About 80% of those killed in workplace-related accidents in men.

My personal impression is that while there is certainly a glass ceiling - in that many people are uncomfortable with women in positions of authority - there appears to be something of a "glass floor" as well, in that society is less comfortable seeing extreme deprivation foisted upon women than it is with men.

Typically, missing people's photos that appear on milk cartons are those of white women, presumably because the plight of women evokes sympathy to a greater extent than men.