Why Do Women Get Raped Around The World

Eve Ensler creates a safe haven for girls all over the world, in every situation in the protection of her words. The simple idea this novel is for the bringing together of women through sharing their stories allowing them to relate. Women are always blamed for being raped, they either dressed too provocatively or that they had it coming to them. In today’s society women are taught many different was to avoid getting raped which doesn’t seem to make a change in the rape victim cases around the world. Rape has many traumatic side effects of the helpless victims like, STD's, emotional problems, social problems, unwanted pregnancy, and marriage/relationship problems. We as people should teach our children, but especially our sons, not to rape instead of teaching our daughters how not to get raped.
Rape around the world is a serious epidemic. As women we are constantly taught ways on how not to get raped. From a very young age women are taught not to dress provocatively, watch where they walk, don’t lead men on, don’t walk alone especially at night, don’t drink too much, be careful who they talk
One out of every six American women has been a victim of attempted or completed rape. Eighty percent are under the age of thirty. Females between the ages 12-34 have the highest risk of being raped, teens ages 16-19 are four times more likely to be assaulted. The number of rapes reported is evenly spread throughout the year but increases by about nine percent in August and has the fewest reports in December, around seven percent. Nearly six out of ten sexual assaults were reported by victims to happen at their home or a friend’s home. Rape is one of the most underreported crimes with an average of 39 percent reported annually. These are things that we should be teaching males because they most likely don’t know any of this. Informing males of the statistics of rape might actually help them learn not to rape and can potentially stop