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History of Feminism

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Texasgal

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Thu May 1, 2014, 08:22 PM May 2014

One in five women in college sexually assaulted: [View all]

“We know the numbers: one in five of every one of those young women who is dropped off for that first day of school, before they finish school, will be assaulted, will be assaulted in her college years.”
–Vice President Biden, remarks on the release of a White House report on sexual assault, April 29, 2014
“It is estimated that 1 in 5 women on college campuses has been sexually assaulted during their time there — 1 in 5.”
–President Obama, remarks at White House, Jan. 22, 2014
Reports of sexual assault on college campuses spurred the White House earlier this year to launch a task force to examine the issue. The group’s report was issued on Tuesday, and the first sentence of the report echoes what both the president and vice president have asserted in public: “One in five women is sexually assaulted in college.”
Where does this oft-repeated statistic come from? We dug into the data so you don’t have to.
The Facts
This statistic is derived from a 2007 study, The Campus Sexual Assault Study, which was conducted for the Justice Department’s National Institute of Justice. The researchers, led by Christopher Krebs of RTI International, also surveyed men, but the statistic cited by the administration focuses on women so we will look carefully at that part of the study.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/wp/2014/05/01/one-in-five-women-in-college-sexually-assaulted-the-source-of-this-statistic/

What??? This is HORRIBLE! No rape culture here...

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