All of them?
It's amazing where Sitemeter can lead you. Here are some astounding, unbelievable, heart-breaking statistics (check out the one in italics) from New International magazine, Issue 384 from last November:
Women and girlsOrissa is on India's east coast along the Bay of Bengal. Women have other problems there as well, of course. There's lots of poverty, but it's a very beautiful part of the world.
• School attendance rates for girls with disabilities are even lower than those for boys with disabilities.2• Women with disabilities are two to three times more likely to suffer physical and sexual abuse than women without disabilities.2
• A survey in India’s Orissa state found 100% of disabled women and girls were beaten at home, 25% of women with intellectual impairments had been raped and 6% of disabled women had been forcibly sterilized.1
• 20 million women a year are disabled as a consequence of pregnancy and childbirth.1 The overwhelming majority are likely be in the Global South, as only 1% of annual maternal deaths are recorded in rich countries.7
• Over 100 million girls and women in Africa have experienced the disabling consequences of female genital mutilation.2
5 comments:
VERY interesting! and not suprising
Yes, it is quiet common for this to happen in a country like India, especially in the lower uneducated stratas of society - Orissa especially because it is one of the poorest states in India, Thank you for the link.
Though gender inequality is less of issue here because a large population in state is Tribal and hence matriachal.
If you looking to learn more about Orissa you could visit - http://indiatogether.org/states/orissa.htm
Interesting, indeed, though I found the 100% statistic to be very surprising.
Akshay, a matriarchal culture like the one described is just as troublesome as a patriarchal one, but thank you for the links.
"25% of women with intellectual impairments had been raped"
Bean posted about this once a few years ago. It's something I'd always suspected, but seeing the statistic is, as always chilling. And it definitely keeps me up at night.
Yet one more way I can't treat my daughter exactly the way I'd treat any other daughter. There are things she will face that are . . . different. Dammit.
Sarahlynn, yeah. I wonder how much sex education for young women helps them to understand their rights and boundaries better. That doesn't get them out of institutional or residential settings where abusers will work, though. It's awful to contemplate.
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