Facts about women

While statistics are very inaccurate, probably about 1.2 billion women in the world have been raped or sexually assaulted, or about 30 million every year; statistics on the issue are are very hard to get because only about 65 of the 200 or so countries in the world keep statistics on reported sexual violence, and statistics on overall incidence beyond what is reported come from studies that cover few people, and the world is a very diverse place, and perhaps more tellingly an exhaustive investigation has not been done. According to a report covering only 62 countries about 1 person in every 10,000 is murdered each year, and multiplying this number to make it equal the approximate world population about 700,000 people are murdered each and every year, excluding deaths due to political violence, wars, deaths due to displacement, and societal negligence. A study believes that 40-70% of women who are murdered are murdered by their domestic partner. Two other studies proposed that 70 million women and mostly girls have, or 2 million each and every year are, genitally mutilated, often using unsanitary methods, causing untold and often life-long pain and destroying their capacity for sexual functioning. Only about 38 of 204 countries in the world keep statistics on violence perpetrated against children. Only about 15% of political positions in the world are held by women. A very strong correlation has been found between the number of married women in the workplace and the total number of women, both married and single, in the workplace. From a study that interviewed 25,000 women in 10 countries and studies of rates of domestic violence in other individual countries probably about 1 billion women in the world have suffered domestic violence, or maybe about 25 million per year.
This website is pretty good for stories about what is going on in some parts of the world related to this topic, but it does not address the U.S. or any countries it might not accept immigrants from:
http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Tahirih-Justice-Center/142257595231?ref=ts