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51% of college men surveyed
said that they would rape if they could get away with it.
One in four female college students
experiences rape or attempted rape and 84% know their attackers.
It is estimated that
one-fourth of women world wide are physically battered.
Approximately 90% of
children are aware of the violence directed at their mother.
Most mental health surveys
indicate a 2 to 2.5 time greater incidence of depression
among young women than men.
At the current rate of
progress, it would take 475 years for women to reach equality
with men as senior managers
85 million to 114 million
women and girls have undergone female genital mutilation
worldwide; each year an estimated 2 million more girls suffer
the practice in Africa, Asia, or as immigrants or refugees
in Europe and North America.
In a study of unmarried
college students, 90% of the men and 78% of of the women
stated that they would prefer a boy if they could only have
one child.
An estimated 1 million
child prostitutes, mostly girls, work in Asia, including
300,000 in India, 200,000 in Thailand, 100,000 in the Philippines,
40,000 in Vietnam, 30,000 in Sri Lanka and many thousands
in China.
Heterosexual transmission
is the leading cause of HIV for women.
Worldwide 3,000 women
are infected everyday with the virus that causes AIDS.
After parental consent
laws for abortion wen into effect in Minnesota, the birthrate
for 15-17 year olds increased an astronomical 40 percent.
Women still earn 76 cent for every dollar
earned by men.
Racist and homophobic
hate crimes specifically directed at women have increased
exponentially.
Anywhere from 6-63%
of females were sexually abused as children, usually
by adults related to or known by them or their families.
More than one million
women seek medical treatment for abuse every year and
more than 150,00 women are raped.
One women in the
United States is beaten every 18 seconds.
An estimated 75 percent
of rapes occur between people who know each other.
A women is raped every
6 seconds in the United States.
One in ten adolescent
girls suffer from anorexia or bulimia.
Young women are one quarter
of today's homeless population.
Only about 8% of all
welfare household are headed by teen mothers.
40,000 teenage girls
drop out of high school each year because of pregnancy.
The nationwide conviction
rate for rape is only 10%.
At least 2 million women
are subjected to physical abuse each year.
As many as 1,871 women
are raped each day
