Sexual assaults in the United States increased by an estimated 64% from 2021 to 2022. Survivors may seek an exam and related medical treatments from a health care provider, and such exams must be free of charge under federal law. Coverage for related medical treatments, however, varies in states, counties, and on tribal lands. Sexual violence data.
The gender pay gap – the difference between the median earnings of men and women – has remained relatively flat in the United States over the past two decades, according to an analysis of hourly earnings of full- and part-time workers. In 2022, U.S. women typically earned 82 cents for every dollar men earned.
The World Economic Forum's Gender Gap Index for 2012 ranked United States 22nd best out of 135 countries for gender equality. [ 93 ] [ 175 ] The primary indicators for inequality were related to political empowerment, where the US was ranked 55th (32nd for women in ministerial position and 78th for women in parliament). [ 93 ]
The Gender Strategy underscores the U.S. government’s commitment to advancing the rights and opportunities of women, girls, and LGBTQI+ persons in all their diversity, both in the United States and around the world, cementing our long-standing belief that gender equity and equality are both a moral and strategic imperative.
It's estimated that it will take around 200 years to achieve gender equality in the US. Currently, women earn on average just 84% of what men make. While women make up more than 50% of the population and 47% of the labor force, they only represent 26% of members of Congress, 5% of CEOs at Fortune 500 firms, and 34% of STEM degree recipients. ...
The gender gap in pay fell significantly after 1980 (11, 12). Attitudes about the proper roles for men and women became more gender egalitarian (13, 14). However, much of this research, as well as additional recent research (e.g., refs. 15 and 16), also shows a slowdown or even stall in movement toward gender equality.
The 2020 Global Gender Gap Report from the World Economic Forum ranks progress toward equality in 153 countries around the world. The U.S. is in a disappointing 53rd place, compared to 25th place ...
8/30/22, 1:15 PM Fact Sheet: National Strategy on Gender Equity and Equality - The White House ... It has also exacerbated a “shadow pandemic” of gender-based violence in the United States and around the world. These overlapping crises have underscored that, for far too long, the status quo has left too many behind. ...
In the United States of America, 88.9% of legal frameworks that promote, enforce and monitor gender equality under the SDG indicator, with a focus on violence against women, are in place. The adolescent birth rate is 13.5 per 1,000 women aged 15–19 as of 2022, down from 13.64 per 1,000 in 2021.
Among those who think the country still has work to do in achieving gender equality, 77% say sexual harassment is a major obstacle to women’s equality. Smaller shares, but still majorities, also point to other obstacles: 67% say women don’t have the same legal rights as men; 66% say that there are different societal expectations for men and ...
The U.S. ranking for gender equality worldwide fell significantly over the past year due to a widening gap in political empowerment and health outcomes between men and women, according to a study ...
Sex equality must be given this same level of protection. Without the ERA, basic women’s human rights – such as access to reproductive healthcare and equal protection in cases of sexual and gender-based violence and workplace discrimination – are vulnerable to amendment and repeal. In June 2022, the US Supreme Court overturned
But data from the Global Gender Report shows there's still a long way to go to reach gender parity in the US and globally. Globally, we're another 100 years away from equality. On 18 August 2020 it was the 100th anniversary of the adoption of the 19th Amendment - which guaranteed US women the right to vote.
The international foundation released its annual Global Gender Gap Report on Tuesday, which found that the overall gender gap has narrowed by 0.3 percentage points compared to last year. But the ...
On March 8, 2021, President Biden signed Executive Order 14020 , establishing the first-ever Gender Policy Council (GPC) and calling on the whole-of-U.S. government to pursue a comprehensive approach to advance gender equity and equality. Charged with the mandate of integrating and advancing gender equality throughout U.S. foreign policy and as the Department’s representative to the […]
A new report from the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality says that, for many measures of gender inequality, women rapidly made up ground in the latter half of the 20th century.
That's why the Biden-Harris Administration established the White House Gender Policy Council, charged with leading the development of the first-ever National Strategy on Gender Equity and Equality, which sets forth an aspirational vision and a comprehensive agenda to advance gender equity and equality in domestic and foreign policy—and ...
