Since the turn of the millennium, over 5,000 women have been murdered in Guatemala. To give a better idea of what this figure means, consider that if Guatemala, with its population of 14 million, were the size of the United States, this would add up to 110,000 women murdered in a decade. And conditions are only worsening with the passage of time. In 2000, 213 women met violent deaths in Guatemala, compared to 720 in 2009 and 675 in 2010. Worse still, only an estimated 2 percent of these cases have received legal action.
More than 80 per cent of [rape victims] said they did not report their assault to the police, while 29 per cent said they told nobody – not even a friend or family member – of their ordeal.
Unreported rapes: The silent shame (via Hannah)
At least 10 times as many girls are now trafficked into brothels annually as African slaves were transported to the New World in the peak years of the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
Twenty-one per cent of Sri Lankan males who were seen at a London torture treatment centre reported sexual abuse while in detention. In El Salvador, 76% of male political prisoners surveyed in the 1980s described at least one incidence of sexual torture. A study of 6,000 concentration-camp inmates in Sarajevo found that 80% of men reported having been raped.
Women and men tend to work in very different occupations. And overall “men’s jobs” are better paid than “women’s jobs.”
Forty percent of female juveniles in custody report being victims of sexual abuse.
Two thirds (66%) of [women in prison] reported having been involved in at least one violent relationship.
Females [in prison] were substantially more likely than males to report that since the age of 16 years, they had been subjected to at least one form of sexual violence (29% versus 2%). Women were also more likely to report that they had been subjected to such sexual violence on more than one occasion (22% versus 2%).
Twenty two percent of women reported having engaged in vaginal or anal sexual activity with a partner who threatened violence (compared with <1% of men); 21% of women reported having been subjected to actual violence during sexual activity (versus 1% of men); and 18% of women reported having had a partner who used their weight or size to immobilise the participant during sexual activity (versus 2% of men).
45% of [imprisoned] women reported that a partner or spouse had engaged in at least one form of abuse or control in the year preceding their current incarceration.
The proportion of women in OECD countries who are employed peaked in 2008, at around 58%.
America has one of the lowest rates of public investment on childcare in the OECD.
In most countries, women spend more than two hours extra per day on unpaid work than men.
An estimated 100,000 to 300,000 American-born children are sold for sex each year.
Only 20% of full professors in the US are women. In other countries, the proportion is even lower.
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