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• Rape Conviction-Rates

Out of 1'000 reported rapes, 975 perpetrators will walk free. A conviction rate of only 2.5%. 97.5% of all persecuted(!) rapists never see even a day in jail.

Rape is the most underreported violent crime - with estimated only around 30% (or even less) reported cases.

This puts the actual conviction rate for rape at around 0.7% and lower.

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Encoded into Law

Discrimination, oppression and exploitation of women and girls is still firmly encoded into law in countries all across the globe. These are just a few examples of many more:

• 113 countries do not have laws to ensure equal pay for equal work among men and women

• 104 countries make certain jobs off-limits for women

• 39 countries have laws that mean a daughter cannot inherit the same proportion of assets as a son

• 36 countries limit what wives can inherit from their husbands

• 29 countries restrict the hours women can work

• 18 countries allow men to prohibit their wives from working

• 17 countries limit when and how women can travel outside the home

Systemic oppression and exploitation of women and girls are still encoded into law worldwide - and with it also into culture and everyday social life, creating and upholding an androcratic hierarchic system - patriarchy.

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• The #1 Risk During Pregnancy - Homicide

Homicide is the leading cause of death for pregnant women in the US.

Women who are pregnant or who have recently given birth are more likely to be murdered than to die from obstetric causes; with their own male partners being the overwhelming majority of perpetrators.

For women in general, IPV (Intimate Partner Violence) is an acute and likely danger, with one in three women experiencing IPV in their lifetime.

Up to 75% women experiencing IPV before pregnancy will also suffer from abuse during pregnancy and postpartum.

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#medical misogyny

Misdiagnosed & Mistreated - Misogyny & Androcentrism in Medicine

Although it is a well established scientific fact that the female body acts and reacts medically often very different than the male body, these differences get widely ignored. This widespread misogyny and androcentrism in medicine frequently gets women misdiagnosed and mistreated, which often proves deadly.

Studies found that females presenting with a heart attack were more likely to die when a male doctor treated them, compared with a female doctor.

Women are also 50% more likely to get their heart attack misdiagnosed - for their (typical to females) symptoms get seen as atypical and often dismissed; based upon only male symptoms getting seen as typical and indicative.

Female patients are also less likely to be prescribed preventative treatment after an initial attack.

Women are half as likely as men to receive pain killers after surgery.

When getting surgery, women have a 32% higher risk of dying - when operated on by a male surgeon.

They also have to wait longer to receive pain management medication in emergency rooms as well as often simply getting sedated instead of recieving pain management. No such effect is seen in male patients.

Female patients generally have to wait for significantly longer timespans to get a diagnosis. Per example, it takes typically 2.5 more years for a woman to be diagnosed with cancer and 4.5 more years for a diabetes diagnosis compared with men. In total, women were found to get diagnosed much later in more than 700 diseases compared to men.

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• Forced Marriage & Child Brides

Forced marriage is still a very prevalent violation of human rights worldwide, especially for women and girls. 88% of victims were women and girls.

37% of victims were under 18 at the time of the marriage. Of these, 44% were under 15 at the time of the marriage.

Each year, 12 million girls under 18 are getting married off. Most of these scenarios consist of the girl getting married off to a much older - adult - man.

The UN report (linked below) states that globally, in 2021, nearly 1 in 5 women aged 20-24 were married before turning 18.

(UN - Report "Gender Snapshot 2022"; general report on women's rights & equality worldwide)

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#anti sex industry

• Human Trafficking & the Sex Industry

Human trafficking is the second largest and fastest growing criminal industry in the world, second only to drug trafficking.

Human trafficking earns global profits of roughly $150 billion a year for traffickers, $99 billion of which comes from commercial sexual exploitation.

Globally, an estimated 71% of enslaved people are women and girls, while men and boys account for 29%. This encompasses all forms of human trafficking, of which the two most common forms are forced labour trafficking and sexual exploitation.

Concerning sex trafficking specifically, over 94% of victims are female.

If we add all child victims - girls and boys - to the number of sex trafficked women, we get over 99% of all victims in sexual slavery.

Studies suggest that only about 0.04% survivors of human trafficking cases get ever identified, meaning that the vast majority of cases of human trafficking go undetected. 

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• Systemic Misogyny in Medicine - Misogyny kills

Women needing surgery face an increased risk of 32% to die if they get operated on by a male surgeon

Overall, female patients also had a 16% greater risk of complications and an 11% greater risk of readmission and were 20% more likely to have to stay in hospital longer when treated by male surgeons, compared to female surgeons.

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• Owning your own Wages

In the US, only from 1900 on, married women were allowed to keep their own wages and register property in their own name and with that were allowed at least some control over their own property and earnings.

Women then had still not the status of full personhood before the law (which is what is actually meant with 'equality' & 'emancipation'); they were still at the mercy of their husbands (or fathers) who could decide if they were even allowed to work in the first place, since the idea that “a married woman's legal existence was incorporated into that of her husband” forced them into a situation of complete dependance. That is why the ability to work and have one's own funds was and still is so crucial to female liberation.

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• Sex Trafficking Worldwide

Globally, 4.8 million victims get trafficked for the sex industry every year.

This category includes any adults who involuntarily participate in the sex industry and children experiencing commercial sexual exploitation. 3.8 million victims were adults, and 1 million were children. Globally, 99% of victims were women and girls.

(Data sourced via traffickinginstitute.org)

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#sexual violence

• Sexual Violence against Girls - The Statistics

17% of women reported at least one unwanted sexual contact (narrowly defined) by a relative before the age of 16.  This suggests that approximately 1 in 6 girls have been sexually abused by a relative in childhood.

34% of women reported at least one unwanted sexual contact by a nonrelative before age 16, suggesting that 1 in 3 girls is sexually abused by a nonrelative in childhood.

In total, 42% of women reported at least one experience of incestuous and/or extrafamilial sexual abuse before age 16.  27% were sexually abused before age 8.

If a broader definition is used, including unwanted kisses, nongenital sexual touching, or noncontact experiences such as having someone masturbate in front of them, 53.8% of women reported an unwanted sexual experience before age 16.

(Data source: "The Women's Safety Project")

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• Google searches on International Women’s Day

Every single year, google searches for 'International Men's Day' peak around march 8th - which is International Women's Day. This example visualizes the - sadly - very well known phenomenon of men often only "caring" and using the wellfare of their own class as a means to derail discussions and progress in women's rights, as a tool to keep women down - and with that at their mercy & disposal. It's an expression of a colonist mindset.

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#herstory

• First Patent officially held by a Woman (in the US)

Mary Dixon Kies was the first woman to apply for and receive a U.S. patent in her own name. Her patent, issued May 5, 1809, was for a process for weaving straw with silk that was adopted by the New England hat-making industry.

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• On systemic misogyny & inequality

Only 1% of aid supporting gender equality went to women’s rights organisations in 2016-2017, despite governments around the world committing an extra $1bn to gender equality initiatives globally....

This means that all these funds went to anything but women & their own (independent) organizations/NGOs, which are chronically underfunded anyways. This sets them under huge pressure to either comply to governnent sanctioned agendas (which are usually anti-women/anti-feminist) in order to even just keep the lights on, or to get cut off completely from any funding and support in general.

(sources: Guardian, 2019, OECD, 2019)

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• The Gender Wealth-Gap & owning Land

Less than 15% of landholders worldwide are women, despite most women in the global south working in agriculture.

(source: Food and Agriculture Organization, 2015; World Bank, 2019).

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• The first printed book on feminist philosophy published

The first officially & openly published printed work on feminist philosophy was "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" by Mary Wollstonecraft in the year 1792.

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• Women's unpaid Labour

Worldwide, women and girls perform 12.5 billion hours of unpaid labor every day. This work adds $10.8 trillion to the economy every year.

With this unpaid "shadow-labour" alone, women contribute as much as 6.6 percent to the global GDP.

It exceeds the combined revenue of the 50 largest companies on last year’s , including Walmart, Apple and Amazon.

(Data via Oxfam & ILO)

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