Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The percentage of women who have been raped in the United States is between 15% and 20%, with various studies disagreeing with each other. (National Violence Against Women survey in 1995, 17.6% rate; [13] a 2007 Department of Justice study on rape found 18% rate [14]). About 500 women were raped per day in the United States in 2008. [10]
Femicide in the United States accounts for the deaths of more than five women daily, and 70% of the total deaths of women among high-income countries. [149] [150] One of the largest predictors of femicide in the United States is the appearance of physical abuse, which was found in 79% of all femicide cases in North Carolina. [151]
In the United States, much of the history of forced sterilization is connected to the legacy of eugenics and racism in the United States. [189] Many doctors thought that they were doing the country a service by sterilizing women who were poor, disabled, or a minority; the doctors considered those women to be a drain on the system.
Trump’s sitdown with Sean Hannity, taped Wednesday morning at the White House, is his first television interview as the 47th president.. In his first term, Trump participated in 29 interviews ...
The World Economic Forum's Gender Gap Index for 2012 ranked United States 22nd best out of 135 countries for gender equality. [ 93 ] [ 175 ] The primary indicators for inequality were related to political empowerment, where the US was ranked 55th (32nd for women in ministerial position and 78th for women in parliament). [ 93 ]
Phulmoni Dasi rape case (1889); Mathura rape case (1972); Violence against women during the partition of India (1989); Rape during the Kashmir conflict (1989); Ruchika Girhotra case (1990)
The term ‘femicide’ – which is typically when a woman is killed by a current or former partner - became so topical an Italian encyclopedia named it as its word of the year in 2023.
Femicide by country (5 C, 4 P) Female genital mutilation by country (1 C, 11 P) Honor killing by country (10 C) A. ... Violence against women in the United States (8 ...