For centuries, women have been fighting for their basic rights. Starting off with the right to vote and buy land in the 19th century, all the way up to closing the wage gap in the modern day, women have worked their asses off to get to where they are now. Present day concerns such as sexual abuse, the genders double standards, and wage gaps are slowly being recognized in society.
Women walk down the street in constant fear that someone will harm them. One in five women will be sexually assaulted on college campuses every year in the united states and 90 percent of them will go unreported. One in three women will be assaulted in prisons and only thirteen percent of them will be reported. Marital rape is a very common form of rape that many will not realize actually happens. It is non consensual sex in which the perpetrator is the victim's spouse and many women do not consider this rape because they are married. Overall, one out of every six woman will be raped in their lifetime.
There are no safe places either, a women could experience sexual abusive nearly everywhere they step. Sexual violence can happen to anyone, at any time, and by any person. Women have reported being assaulted by a variety of different people pertaining to their lives. Usually by a woman's significant other, some report their attacker being a family member or not knowing who he or she was. Rape can be psychologically damaging to anyone who has experienced it
Growing up you're taught that if a boy at school teases or hits you, that they most likely have a crush on you, and that's how they’re choosing to show their affection. Your parents tell you this and you tend to believe the majority of things they tell you so you have that mindset as you grow up. 1.5 million high school students will be in an abusive relationship every year just in the united states alone. 94 percent of women in relationships from the ages 16 to 19 will be in at least one abusive relationship.
Statistically men are at a much lower chance of being sexually assaulted than women. Only 1.41 percent of men in the united states will experience a sexual assault in their lifetimes, whereas assaults on females are reported at 15 to 20 percent.
Women are in fact not safe or equal to other genders. They risk their lives everywhere they go and with every person they meet. It's hard for women to trust people because you never know people as well as you may think. The entire gender is petrified to walk down the street alone or without some form of protection. The fight for equality will live on.
