US women under discrimination, violence, sexual assault
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E-mail Xinhua, May 25, 2012
Women in the United States often experience discrimination, violence and sexual assault, according to a human rights report released Friday by China counterblowing the U.S. rebuking of human rights in China in its annual human rights assessment.
Gender discrimination against women widely exists in the United States, according to the Human Rights Record of the United States in 2011 released by the State Council Information Office of the People's Republic of China.
Statistics show that women are not fully represented in governments at all levels in the United States, as they hold only 17 percent of the seats in Congress, the report said.
Women doing the same work as men often get less payment in the United States, and the wage gap has narrowed by only 18 cents in the past half century, it said
The report indicated that a new study confirms that American tech companies are woefully behind in including women among their board members and highest-paid executives. On average, fewer than one in 28 of the highest-paid tech executives are women.
The report also said that ethnic minority women face discrimination during pregnancy. According to the report provided by the LAMB (The Los Angeles Mommy and Baby Project), 32.4 percent of Asian-American mothers felt discriminated against during pregnancy, second only to African-American mothers among whom the ratio amounts to 47.9 percent, while the ratio among Latin American mothers is 31.1 percent.
According to statistics from the website of the Los Angeles Police Department, more than 2 million American women are victims of domestic violence annually, the report said.
The National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey also shows nearly one in five women has been raped in her lifetime, and one in four has experienced serious physical violence from an intimate partner, it said.
Throughout the military, sexual assault affects about 19 percent of female troops but most of them choose to keep silent, the report quoted a survey conducted by the U.S. military as saying.
