1 in 5 Women Have Been Victims of Sexual Assault

A new CDC study—the first in what will be annual reports on violence between intimate partners—has some rough numbers, as per Bloomberg and the Washington Post:

• 1 in 4 women have been physically assaulted by a husband or boyfriend
• 1 in 5 women have been sexually assaulted at some point in their lives
• 1 in 6 women have been stalked
• 1 in 7 men have been physically assaulted by a partner
• About 1.3 million women were sexually assaulted in the year prior to the study
• Most who have experienced such violence did so before age 25

“The prevalence of sexual and intimate partner violence is staggering,” says a representative of one advocacy group. (More domestic violence stories.)