Around this time last year, Chantel Contos began a discussion on social media about sexual assaults within schools, and the lack of consent education for teenagers.
As the conversation went viral, teens and young women came forward with accounts of waking up naked at parties or in a young man's house, after passing out due to intoxication, with male peers penetrating them.
Other students said they were physically forced to perform oral sex on a male while intoxicated, sometimes while the boy's friends were present or filming.
Others only realised something had happened after they woke up in pain, or found blood on themselves.
The epidemic of violence against women
Ms Contos fiercely lobbied for change within the education system – with her online petition garnering more than 44,000 signatures and containing 6,500 personal stories. At the same time, the conversation around sexual harassment in workplaces has become much louder, reaching fever pitch in the wake of the
