What is the number of Canadian women who report experiencing sexual violence in their lifetimes?
100
Fear, nightmares, flashbacks
What are three effects of sexual violence?
100
The number one reason cited by women for not reporting sexual violence.
What is the fear of not being believed.
100
This landmark change in women's status in Canada occurred in 1929
What is the year women legally became "persons"
100
Insulting her, calling her names or making her think she is crazy or inadequate
What is Emotional Abuse?
200
9 out of 10
What is the number of disabled women who report sexual abuse/violence?
200
The overall cost to society of the impacts of sexual violence.
What are economic impacts of violence against women?
200
It is estimated that this occurs at least 35 times before a woman first calls police.
What is partner assault or domestic violence?
200
The passage of this in 1982 granted equality rights for the first time to women in Canada
What is the Charter of Rights and Freedoms
200
Trying to keep her from getting a job, taking/controlling her money, giving her an allowance or making her ask for money when she needs it, forcing her to work to pay for partner's bills, debts, leisure, habits, etc.
What is Economic Abuse?
300
5% are, 95% are not
What is the percentage of Canadian sexual assaults reported to police? (GSS, 2014)
300
This can occur when multiple generations of people experience prolonged or continuous forms of abuse.
What is intergenerational trauma?
300
While most crime rates in Canada have decreased, this has increased or stayed the same.
What is the rate of sexual assault?
300
While many Canadian women gained this right in 1917, Indigenous women didn't gain it until 1960.
What is the right to vote in federal elections?
300
Sexual assault, coercion, child sexual abuse, rape, sexual harassment, sexual/body humiliation
What is sexual abuse?
400
Canadian women are 11 times more likely to be a victim of this than men.
What is a sexual offence?
400
Women's experience of violence in society causes a disproportionate number of them to live in this.
What is poverty?
400
This period is the most dangerous time for a woman experiencing partner violence, including a much higher risk of being murdered.
What is when she leaves the abuser?
400
Up until this year it was legal to rape or sexually assault your spouse in Canada.
What is 1983?
400
Using societal systems (legal system, child protection system, social assistance, etc.) as means to continue control and prolong engagement
What is legal bullying (legal abuse)?
500
47% of violent crimes against this group are sexual in nature
What is girls under 12 years old
500
This social imbalance is created when one group has less mobility, opportunity, or agency as a result of their gender, race, ethnicity, or other innate factors.
What is inequality?
500
This international rights treaty was adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1979 and has been ratified by 189 states.
What is the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women?
500
This "shield" law legal created the first rights protections for victims of sexual assault testifying in court.
What is "the rape shield law"?
500
Controlling women’s reproduction, destroying or sabotaging birth control, forcing pregnancy or termination, deliberately exposing partners to STI’s