Almost half of all American Indian and Alaska Native women (48.8%) have been stalked in their lifetime.
SOURCE | NATIONAL CONGRESS OF AMERICAN INDIANS (FEBRUARY 2018) POLICY RESEARCH CENTER
About 83% of victims of elder sexual abuse reside in an institutional care center, such as a nursing home.
SOURCE | NURSINGHOMEABUSECENTER.COM
Alaska Native women have the highest rates of sexual violence of any population in the United States. They comprise 19% of the Alaska state women, but 47% of reported rape. Every 18 hours, an Alaska Native woman is sexually assaulted.
SOURCE | ATTORNEY GENERAL’S ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON AMERICAN INDIAN/ALASKA NATIVE CHILDREN EXPOSED TO VIOLENCE: ENDING VIOLENCE SO CHILDREN CAN THRIVENOVEMBER 2014EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
94% of Indigenous women have experienced street harassment.
OURCE | URBAN INDIAN HEALTH INSTITUTE, “OUR BODIES, OUR STORIES” REPORT
94% of Indigenous women in Seattle have experienced rape or been coerced into having sex.
SOURCE | URBAN INDIAN HEALTH INSTITUTE, “OUR BODIES, OUR STORIES” REPORT
90% of youth who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning (LGBTQ) reported being harassed or assaulted during the past year, compared to 62% of students who identify as straight.
SOURCE | GAY, LESBIAN AND STRAIGHT EDUCATION NETWORK [GLSEN], 2007
81% of women and 43% of men reported experiencing some form of sexual harassment and/or assault in their lifetime, with more than 3 in 4 women (77%) and 1 in 3 men (34%) experiencing verbal sexual harassment.
SOURCE | “THE FACTS BEHIND THE METOO MOVEMENT, A NATIONAL STUDY ON SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND ASSAULT”, STOP STREET HARASSMENT
80% of women workers in the restaurant industry reported experiencing some form of sexual harassment at work.
SOURCE | ALBA CONTE 2019, SEXUAL HARASSMENT IN THE WORKPLACE
80% of women farmworkers in California’s Central Valley have experienced sexual harassment on the job, according to a 2010 study.
SOURCE | HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH, “CULTIVATIN FEAR” REPORT