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Ready to print support resource poster

Find practical support options for women affected by gambling, including services, resources, and pathways to confidential help

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Guide to promoting the toolkit across social media

Access our guide to help share key messages about the toolkit and women and gambling harm

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How women of different ages and gambling risk status experience gambling

Hear how gambling experiences differ across age groups and levels of gambling involvement among women

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How to move beyond individual responsibility

Explore why gambling harm is influenced by broader social, environmental, and industry factors beyond personal choice

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Why young women gamble and how they understand risk

Hear how young women describe their motivations for gambling and perceptions of potential harm

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How gambling companies market to women

Hear about women's perspectives on advertising, sponsorships, influencers, and other strategies used by gambling companies

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What women need from prevention and support

Hear about women's views on the types of prevention, support, and services that make a difference

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How someone else's gambling causes harm

Hear how the gambling of partners, family members, and friends can impact women's lives and wellbeing

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How gambling fits into everyday life

Hear how gambling becomes part of daily routines, social activities, and familiar community environments

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Exploring women's ideas for creating change

Hear about women's perspectives on the actions needed to reduce gambling harm and drive meaningful change.

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How women understand and respond to gambling risk

Hear how women recognise, interpret, and respond to gambling risks in everyday situations

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How gambling becomes part of growing up

Hear how young women describe early gambling experiences and the factors that make gambling feel normal

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Understanding women's gambling behaviour and harm

Explore how women's gambling behaviours vary across life stages, social contexts, and gambling products, and why a gendered approach is essential for preventing harm.

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Preventing gambling harm for women

Explore evidence-informed strategies for preventing gambling harm through gender-responsive approaches, stronger regulation, stigma reduction, and structural change.

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Gambling harm and women as affected others

Explore how the gambling of partners, family members, friends, and others can affect women's financial security, relationships, and emotional wellbeing.

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Electronic gambling machine harm in older women

Learn how loneliness, life transitions, gambling environments, and machine design interact to shape gambling harm among older women.

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Gambling and older women

This research challenges the idea that gambling harm is simply about individual choice, showing how social, emotional, and environmental factors influence older women's gambling.

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Young women's engagement with gambling

Explore the diverse reasons young women gamble, from social connection and entertainment to financial hopes and emotional escape, and how these shape experiences of harm.

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Gambling and young women

Learn how family traditions, social networks, gambling environments, and marketing contribute to gambling becoming a normal part of young women's lives.

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How gambling becomes routine for women

This research shows how gambling is embedded in everyday environments and routines, making participation feel easy, familiar, and normal over time.

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How gambling is being normalised for women

Discover how social norms, technology, marketing, and everyday exposure are making gambling increasingly accepted and difficult to avoid for women.

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How gambling is promoted to women

Learn how gambling companies use advertising, influencers, branding, and public relations strategies to make gambling appear appealing, normal, and low risk for women.

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Gambling in everyday environments

Gambling us woven into the places and activities that are apart of women's everyday lives. It is easy to access, widely available, and often encountered while doing other things.

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How normalisation happens

Gambling becomes normal when it is accepted, celebrated and rarely questioned. Over time, this shapes attitudes and makes it easier to participate.

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How to use the fact sheet resources

A series of short, accessible summaries that translate research into clear insights about how gambling is experiences, understood, and shaped in women's everyday lives.

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Recognising harm for women

Harm looks different for every woman. It can affect finances, relationships, emotional wellbeing and opportunities.

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Strategies for change

Reducing gambling harm requires action beyond individual choices. We need change at the personal, community and system levels.

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Where to get support

Support is available for women who are worried about their gambling or the gambling of someone close to them. You deserve safe, non-judgmental help that respects your choices and your privacy.

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This research was conducted virtually across Ngunnawl Country (the Australian Capital Territory)(ACT) and Wurundjeri Country (Melbourne, Victoria). We acknowledge and pay our respect to their elders past and present.

 

Thank you to  the ACT Gambling and Racing Commission for funding this research to prioritise responses to the normalisation of gambling for women.

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