Mental Health:
Around 1 in 5 women have common mental health problems such as depression and anxiety.
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Breast Cancer:
Accounts for 12.5 % of all new annual cancer cases worldwide.
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Ovarian Cancer:
Is the 5th major cause of cancer mortality among women.
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Incarcerated Women and Girls:
The female incarcerated population stands over six times higher than in 1980.
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Period Poverty:
Nearly 1/4 of teenagers who menstruate in the U.S. experience period poverty – the inability to access menstrual hygiene products because they can not afford them.
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Poverty:
35% of single women with children live and raise their families in poverty.
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Domestic Violence:
1 in 3 women have experienced some form of domestic violence.
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Sexual Assault:
1 out of every 6 American women have been the victim of an attempted or completed rape. Detroit is ranked one of the most dangerous cities for women.
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Sex Trafficking:
Between 15,000 to 50,000 women and girls are forced into sexual slavery in the United States per year.
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Maternal Mortality:
The US has the highest maternal mortality rate of any developed Nation, and Black women are three times as likely to die from pregnancy-related causes as white women.
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Infant Mortality:
Of all high income countries in 2020, the United States possessed the highest infant mortality rate at 5.4 deaths per 1000 live births, which is markedly higher than the 1.6 deaths per 1000 live births in Norway, which has the lowest mortality rate.
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Education:
129 million girls are out of school worldwide and millions more have access to only subpar education.
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Homelessness:
There are more than 580,000 people who are homeless in the United States. Of those, 223,000 are women and many of those are single mothers.
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