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 2014EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
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 JOURNAL OF OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY, VOL. 175, NO. 2, 1996, PP. 320-4; DISCUSSION 324-5.
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 AND PERPETRATION: A SUMMARY REPORT
1 in 4 women have experienced rape or attempted rape during their lifetimes, according to several national U.S. surveys.
SOURCE | FISHER ET AL. 2000; KOSS ET AL. 1987; TJADEN AND THOENNES 2000 FISHER, B. S., CULLEN, F. T., & TURNER, M. G. (2000). THE SEXUAL VICTIMIZATION OF COLLEGE WOMEN (NCJ PUBLICATION NO. 182369). WASHINGTON DC: U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. KOSS, M. P., GIDYCZ, C. A., &WISNIEWSKI, N. (1987). THE SCOPE OF RAPE: INCIDENCE AND PREVALENCE OF SEXUAL AGGRESSION AND VICTIMIZATION IN A NATIONAL SAMPLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION STUDENTS. JOURNAL OF CONSULTING AND CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY, 55, 162–170. TJADEN, P., & THOENNES, N. (2000). FULL REPORT OF THE PREVALENCE, INCIDENCE, AND CONSEQUENCES OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN: FINDINGS FROM THE NATIONAL VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN SURVEY (NCJ PUBLICATION NO. 183781). WASHINGTON, DC: U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.
1 in 10 elderly persons suffer abuse, including sexual abuse, within a one-year period. Among those aged 60 and over, the lifetime prevalence of sexual assault is 7%.
SOURCE | ACIERNO, RON & HERNANDEZ-TEJADA, MELBA & AMSTADTER, ANANDA & RESNICK, HEIDI & STEVE, KENNETH & MUZZY, WENDY & KILPATRICK, DEAN. (2009). PREVALENCE AND CORRELATES OF EMOTIONAL, PHYSICAL, SEXUAL, AND FINANCIAL ABUSE AND POTENTIAL NEGLECT IN THE UNITED STATES: THE NATIONAL ELDER MISTREATMENT STUDY. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH. 100. 292-7. 10.2105/AJPH.2009.163089.
Women are 6 times more likely to be victims of elder sexual abuse.
SOURCE | NURSINGHOMEABUSECENTER.COM
Up to 55% of Asian women report experiencing sexual violence in their lifetime.
SOURCE | API-GBV.ORG
The number of Latinx people reporting rapes in Houston fell by over 40% in 2017 from the same period in 2016.
SOURCE | ART ACEVEDO, CHIEF OF THE HOUSTON POLICE DEPARTMENT. CITED IN MEDINA, JENNIFER (APRIL 30, 2017) “TOO SCARED TO REPORT SEXUAL ABUSE. THE FEAR: DEPORTATION.” THE NEW YORK TIMES.
The average age of sexual assault is 15 according to the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS)
SOURCE | FELSON, R. B., CUNDIFF, P. R. (2014). SEXUAL ASSAULT AS A CRIME AGAINST YOUNG PEOPLE. ARCHIVES OF SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, 43, 273-284.
Nearly 86% of rapes of American Indian and Alaska Native women are perpetrated by non-Native men.
SOURCE | AMENSTY INTERNATIONAL (2007), MAZE OF INJUSTICE: THE FAILURE TO PROTECT INDIGENOUS WOMEN FROM SEXUAL VIOLENCE.
Nearly 68% of Black women in a low-income Dallas sample had been sexually assaulted. Low-income is an intersecting indicator for risk of sexual assault.
SOURCE | TEMPLE, J. R., WESTON, R., RODRIGUEZ, B. F., & MARSHALL, L. L. (2007). DIFFERING EFFECTS OF PARTNER AND NONPARTNER SEXUAL ASSAULT ON WOMEN’S MENTAL HEALTH. VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN, 13, 285-297. DOI:10.1177/1077801206297437
Nearly 30% of migrants crossing the US-Mexico border experience sexual violence, psychological violence, sexual coercion, and/or kidnapping.
SOURCE | LEYVA-FLORES, R., INFANTE, C., GUTIERREZ, J. P., QUINTINO-PEREZ, F., GÓMEZ-SALDIVAR, M., & TORRES-ROBLES, C. (2019). MIGRANTS IN TRANSIT THROUGH MEXICO TO THE US: EXPERIENCES WITH VIOLENCE AND RELATED FACTORS, 2009-2015. PLOS ONE, 14(8), E0220775. DOI:10.1371/JOURNAL.PONE.0220775
Nearly 15% of Black women who were enrolled in historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) reported being raped.
SOURCE | KREBS, C. P., LINDQUIST, C. H., & BARRICK, K. (2011). THE HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY CAMPUS SEXUAL ASSAULT (HBCUCSA) STUDY. RETRIEVED FROM THE NATIONAL CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFERENCE SERVICE
More than one third of women who report being raped before age 18 also experience rape as an adult.
SOURCE | BLACK, M. C., BASILE, K. C., BREIDING, M. J., SMITH, S .G., WALTERS, M. L., MERRICK, M. T., STEVENS, M. R. (2011). THE NATIONAL INTIMATE PARTNER AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE SURVEY (NISVS): 2010 SUMMARY REPORT. RETRIEVED FROM THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION, NATIONAL CENTER FOR INJURY PREVENTION AND CONTROL
More than 1 in 5 women in the military reported experiencing rape (22.6%), and 50.9% of women and 6.7% of men reported experiencing sexual assault.
SOURCE | LEE MARTIN, MA, LEORA N. ROSEN, PHD, DORIS BRILEY DURAND, PHD, ROBERT H. STRETCH, USAR, KATHRYN H. KNUDSON, USA, PREVALENCE AND TIMING OF SEXUAL ASSAULTS IN A SAMPLE OF MALE AND FEMALE U.S. ARMY SOLDIERS, MILITARY MEDICINE, VOLUME 163, ISSUE 4, APRIL 1998, PAGES 213–216
It is nearly 5 times more likely for Black women who have experienced sexual violence to test positive for Human Papillomavirus (HPV) at the 12 month follow-up compared to those who don’t identify as survivors of sexual violence.
SOURCE | “WINGOOD, G. M., SETH, P., DICLEMENTE, R. J., & ROBINSON, L. S. (2009). ASSOCIATION OF SEXUAL ABUSE WITH INCIDENT HIGH-RISK HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS INFECTION AMONG YOUNG AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN. SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE, 36, 784- 786. DOI:10.1097/OLQ.0B013E3181B3567E “
ndigenous women are nearly three times more likely to experience sexual assault than any other ethnic group in the U.S.
SOURCE | NATIVE AMERICAN WOMEN’S HEALTH EDUCATION RESOURCE CENTER
In the US, one in four girls and one in six boys will be sexually abused before they turn 18 years old.
SOURCE | FINKELHOR, D., HOTALING, G., LEWIS, I. A., & SMITH, C. (1990). SEXUAL ABUSE IN A NATIONAL SURVEY OF ADULT MEN AND WOMEN: PREVALENCE, CHARACTERISTICS AND RISK FACTORS. CHILD ABUSE & NEGLECT 14, 19-28. DOI:10.1016/0145-2134(90)90077-7
Girls placed in foster care have a 67% lifetime prevalence of sexual abuse.
SOURCE | MENDLE, J., LEVE, L. D., VAN RYZIN, M., NATSUAKI, M. N., GE, X. (2011). ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN EARLY LIFE STRESS, CHILD MALTREATMENT, AND PUBERTAL DEVELOPMENT AMONG GIRLS IN FOSTER CARE. JOURNAL OF RESEARCH ON ADOLESCENCE, 21, 871-880.
Girls aged 14-17 have the highest rates of sexual assault among youth populations.
SOURCE | FINKELHOR, D., TURNER, H. A., SHATTUCK, A., HAMBY, S. L. (2013). VIOLENCE, CRIME, AND ABUSE EXPOSURE IN A NATIONAL SAMPLE OF CHILDREN AND YOUTH: AN UPDATE. JAMA PEDIATRICS, 167, 614-621.
Fewer than 1 in 10 women who experienced rape while in college or university reported it to the police.
SOURCE | FISHER, CULLEN & TURNER, “THE SEXUAL VICTIMIZATION OF COLLEGE WOMEN,” NATIONAL RESEARCH REPORT FUNDED BY NIJ
Black women are more likely to have weapons used in their assaults when compared with white women (42.6% vs. 16.7%) and to be assaulted in the city rather than the suburbs (82.8% vs. 56.5%).
SOURCE | BOYKINS AD, ALVANZO AA, CARSON S, FORTE J, LEISEY M, PLICHTA SB. MINORITY WOMEN VICTIMS OF RECENT SEXUAL VIOLENCE: DISPARITIES IN INCIDENT HISTORY. J WOMENS HEALTH (LARCHMT). 2010 MAR;19(3):453-61. DOI: 10.1089/JWH.2009.1484.
Bisexual women experience the highest rate of sexual assault than any other group, according to a 2019 study by the American Psychology Association on nonconsensual pornography victimization.
SOURCE | NONCONSENSUAL PORNOGRAPHY AMONG U.S. ADULTS: A SEXUAL SCRIPTS FRAMEWORK ON VICTIMIZATION, PERPETRATION, AND HEALTH CORRELATES FOR WOMEN AND MEN BY YANET RUVALCABA AND ASIA A. EATON.
As many as 6 in 10 migrant women and girls experience sexual violence.
SOURCE | AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL REPORT
Almost 2.9 million U.S. women have experienced rape-related pregnancy during their lifetime.
SOURCE | AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PREVENTATIVE MEDICINE (VOLUME 55, ISSUE 6, DECEMBER 2018, PAGES 770-776)
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
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
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
61% of survivors did not tell anyone around the time of the abuse/assault according to a national survey on sexual violence within the transgender and SOFFA (Significant Others, Friends, Family and Allies) community. While 47% have long term medical conditions or physical scarring from the abuse/assault(s), the first access of mental health services was most commonly 10 years post abuse/assault.
SOURCE | THE TRANSGENDER SEXUAL VIOLENCE PROJECT
50% of girls who are Deaf have been sexually abused compared to 25% of girls who are hearing.
SOURCE | DISABLED-WORLD.COM
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 JOURNAL OF OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY, VOL. 175, NO. 2, 1996, PP. 320-4; DISCUSSION 324-5.
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 4 women have experienced rape or attempted rape during their lifetimes, according to several national U.S. surveys.
SOURCE | FISHER ET AL. 2000; KOSS ET AL. 1987; TJADEN AND THOENNES 2000 FISHER, B. S., CULLEN, F. T., & TURNER, M. G. (2000). THE SEXUAL VICTIMIZATION OF COLLEGE WOMEN (NCJ PUBLICATION NO. 182369). WASHINGTON DC: U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. KOSS, M. P., GIDYCZ, C. A., &WISNIEWSKI, N. (1987). THE SCOPE OF RAPE: INCIDENCE AND PREVALENCE OF SEXUAL AGGRESSION AND VICTIMIZATION IN A NATIONAL SAMPLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION STUDENTS. JOURNAL OF CONSULTING AND CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY, 55, 162–170. TJADEN, P., & THOENNES, N. (2000). FULL REPORT OF THE PREVALENCE, INCIDENCE, AND CONSEQUENCES OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN: FINDINGS FROM THE NATIONAL VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN SURVEY (NCJ PUBLICATION NO. 183781). WASHINGTON, DC: U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.
1 in 10 elderly persons suffer abuse, including sexual abuse, within a one year period. Among those aged 60 and over, the lifetime prevalence of sexual assault is 7%.
SOURCE | ACIERNO, RON & HERNANDEZ-TEJADA, MELBA & AMSTADTER, ANANDA & RESNICK, HEIDI & STEVE, KENNETH & MUZZY, WENDY & KILPATRICK, DEAN. (2009). PREVALENCE AND CORRELATES OF EMOTIONAL, PHYSICAL, SEXUAL, AND FINANCIAL ABUSE AND POTENTIAL NEGLECT IN THE UNITED STATES: THE NATIONAL ELDER MISTREATMENT STUDY. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH. 100. 292-7. 10.2105/AJPH.2009.163089.
50% of girls who are Deaf have been sexually abused compared to 25% of girls who are hearing.
SOURCE | DISABLED-WORLD.COM
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 2014EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
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 AND PERPETRATION: A SUMMARY REPORT
1 in 4 women have experienced rape or attempted rape during their lifetimes, according to several national U.S. surveys.
SOURCE | FISHER ET AL. 2000; KOSS ET AL. 1987; TJADEN AND THOENNES 2000 FISHER, B. S., CULLEN, F. T., & TURNER, M. G. (2000). THE SEXUAL VICTIMIZATION OF COLLEGE WOMEN (NCJ PUBLICATION NO. 182369). WASHINGTON DC: U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. KOSS, M. P., GIDYCZ, C. A., &WISNIEWSKI, N. (1987). THE SCOPE OF RAPE: INCIDENCE AND PREVALENCE OF SEXUAL AGGRESSION AND VICTIMIZATION IN A NATIONAL SAMPLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION STUDENTS. JOURNAL OF CONSULTING AND CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY, 55, 162–170. TJADEN, P., & THOENNES, N. (2000). FULL REPORT OF THE PREVALENCE, INCIDENCE, AND CONSEQUENCES OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN: FINDINGS FROM THE NATIONAL VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN SURVEY (NCJ PUBLICATION NO. 183781). WASHINGTON, DC: U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.
1 in 10 elderly persons suffer abuse, including sexual abuse, within a one year period. Among those aged 60 and over, the lifetime prevalence of sexual assault is 7%.
SOURCE | ACIERNO, RON & HERNANDEZ-TEJADA, MELBA & AMSTADTER, ANANDA & RESNICK, HEIDI & STEVE, KENNETH & MUZZY, WENDY & KILPATRICK, DEAN. (2009). PREVALENCE AND CORRELATES OF EMOTIONAL, PHYSICAL, SEXUAL, AND FINANCIAL ABUSE AND POTENTIAL NEGLECT IN THE UNITED STATES: THE NATIONAL ELDER MISTREATMENT STUDY. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH. 100. 292-7. 10.2105/AJPH.2009.163089.