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
Women
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, “CULTIVATION FEAR” REPORT
76% of women were survivors of sexual abuse by the age of 13 in a study on a state-wide criminal justice system in Oregon.
SOURCE | NATIONAL ORGANIZATION OF WOMEN
34% of American Indian and Alaska Native women will be raped in their lifetime.
SOURCE | ATTORNEY GENERAL’S ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON AMERICAN INDIAN/ALASKA NATIVE CHILDREN EXPOSED TO VIOLENCE: ENDING VIOLENCE SO CHILDREN CAN THRIVENOVEMBER
32.4% of rape survivors whose rape resulted in pregnancy did not discover they were pregnant until they had already entered the second trimester.
SOURCE | HOLMES, M M., ET AL. “RAPE-RELATED PREGNANCY: ESTIMATES AND DESCRIPTIVE CHARACTERISTICS FROM A NATIONAL SAMPLE OF WOMEN.” AMERICAN
24.2% of active duty women and 6.3% of active duty men indicated experiencing sexual harassment in the year prior to being surveyed in 2018.
SOURCE | DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE ANNUAL REPORT ON SEXUAL ASSAULT IN THE MILITARY, FISCAL YEAR 2018
1 in 8 people “had someone threaten to post and/or post sexually explicit images of them without their consent,” according to a 2017 study by the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative (CCRI). Women were almost twice as likely to be the targets of nonconsensual pornography (NCP) than men.
SOURCE | DR. ASIA A. EATON, DR. HOLLY JACOBS, AND YANET RUVALCABA (JUNE 2017) NATIONWIDE ONLINE STUDY OF NONCONSENSUAL PORN VICTIMIZATION