Why Women?
“85% of domestic violence victims are female, and 15% are male.”
— Huffington Post
More than 1 in 3 women experienced sexual violence involving physical contact during her lifetime
— Centers for Diseases Control & Prevention
“Nearly 1 in 5 women (18.3%) and 1 in 71 men (1.4%) in the United States have been raped at some time in their lives, including completed forced penetration, attempted forced penetration, or alcohol/drug facilitated completed penetration.”
— Centers for Diseases Control & Prevention
“An estimated 13% of women and 6% of men have experienced sexual coercion in their lifetime (i.e., unwanted sexual penetration after being pressured in a nonphysical way); and 27.2% of women and 11.7% of men have experienced unwanted sexual contact”
— National Sexual Violence Resource Center
“More than half (51.1%) of female victims of rape reported being raped by an intimate partner and 40.8% by an acquaintance; for male victims, more than half (52.4%) reported being raped by an acquaintance and 15.1% by a stranger.”
— National Sexual Violence Resource Center
Most female victims of completed rape (79.6%) experienced their first rape before the age of 25; 42.2% experienced their first completed rape before the age of 18 years.
— National Sexual Violence Resource Center