Gender Equality? Some Depressing Statistics...

Systematic, structural violence and discrimination against women continues on a global scale, and not just in so-called "developing" nations.

  1. The following numbers (most from the UN and most quite recent) paint a depressing picture.
  2. 250,000-500,000 women were raped during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda; between 20,000-50,000 women were raped In Bosnia in the early 1990s.
  3. In Canada a study of adolescents aged 15-19 found that 54% of girls had experienced “sexual coercion” in a dating relationship. (UN)
  4. In the United States, 83 percent of girls aged 12 to 16 experience some form of sexual harassment in public schools (UN).
  5. 2.5 million people trafficked annually into prostitution, forced labor, slavery or servitude. Women/girls = 80% of the detected victims.
  6. Cost of intimate partner violence in US over $5.8 billion/year: $4.1 billion in direct medical services; productivity losses $1.8 billion.
  7. 40-50% of women in EU experience unwanted sexual advances, physical contact or other forms of sexual harassment at their workplace. (UN)
  8. In India (2007) 22 women were killed per day in dowry-related murders. In S.Africa a woman is killed every 6 hrs by an intimate partner (UN)
  9. Women aged 15-44 globally are more at risk from rape & domestic violence than from cancer, car accidents, war and malaria (World Bank)

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