Countries: United States
Variables: IAW-LAW-1

According to the "Women, Business and the Law" database (2022), female and male surviving spouses have equal rights to inherit assets. The WBL database cites the following as the source: NY Estates, Powers and Trusts Law, Sec. 4-1.1(a)(2).

Countries: United States
Variables: IAD-LAW-1

According to the "Women, Business and the Law" database (2022), sons and daughters have equal rights to inherit assets from their parents. The WBL database cites the following as the source: NY Estates, Powers and Trusts Law, Sec. 4-1.1(a)(3).

Countries: United States
Variables: LO-LAW-1

"Family law differs in every state in the United States, but there does not appear to be any legal discrimination between men and women on who can be the legal guardian of a child or restriction on either a married or unmarried woman on choosing where to live" (3). "Property laws vary considerably from one state to the next. Regardless, women and men have the same rights to purchase, own, use and dispose of land and non-land assets, regardless of status" (8).

Countries: United States
Variables: MARR-PRACTICE-8

This analysis collected data on the proportion of consanguineous marriages in 72 different geopolitical regions from www.consang.net in October 2010, referencing many of the same 381 surveys as Alan H. Bittles' report (1998) which included information for 6.55 million marriages. In cases when multiple estimates were provided for regions, they computed the mean percentage of consanguineous marriages by weighting individual estimates according to sample size. Table 1 of the appendix summarizes consanguineous marriage data. It shows that the United States' weighted mean consanguineous percentage is 0.193% (VC-CODER COMMENT).

Countries: United States
Variables: SEGI-PRACTICE-2

" 'It's incredibly extreme,' said Mistie DelliCarpini-Tolman, Idaho State Director for Planned Parenthood Alliance Advocates. 'The Idaho legislature is essentially inventing a new crime that they are dubbing 'abortion trafficking.' DelliCarpini-Tolman said her organization is trying to mount a campaign to persuade Little to veto the bill, but she thinks he is likely to sign it. A number of pro-abortion rights groups are weighing a legal challenge to the measure if it becomes law, and she expects a lawsuit to be announced soon after that happens" (para.6-7).

Countries: United States
Variables: MURDER-DATA-1

"In 2020, Private First-Class Vanessa Guillen, 20 - who was training at the Fort Hood Army Base in Killeen, Texas - disappeared shortly after she told her family she was being sexually harassed by an unnamed sergeant and felt unsafe. Her remains were found two months later, and a sergeant named Aaron David Robinson was later arrested for her murder. He allegedly bludgeoned her to death, but it's unclear if he was the man who had sexually harassed her, as he killed himself before his trial" (Para. 45-47).

Countries: United States
Variables: EWCMS-DATA-3

"The TikToker said her superiors 'did nothing' other than move the three service members to a different unit, but she was still forced to see them daily. 'I asked for help, and got ignored,' she stated" (Para. 8-9). "'When I reported that [sexual assault] I started to get bullied by fellow soldiers and retaliated against by leadership. 'The command took over the investigation and sent me home on leave because my mental health was impacted'" (Para. 17-18). "'I reported him to SHARP [Sexual Harassment/Assault Response and Prevention] and after a very long process, I found out there was no probable cause 'based on the accused statement saying the victim consented'"...more

Countries: United States
Variables: ATC-DATA-6

"The United States, including the US Department of Defense, has been engaged with the WPS agenda since 2011, when President Barack Obama launched the first National Action Plan (NAP) on WPS.The US Congress adopted the WPS Act in 2017, which directed the US government to develop a national WPS Strategy. The US WPS Strategy was released in 2019" (vii).

Countries: United States
Variables: DV-PRACTICE-1

"The study comes just as U.S. Senators Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) introduced legislation reauthorizing the landmark Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) this week. While domestic violence advocates praise both senators’ efforts to strengthen the bill, Tanis and other advocates who deal specifically with minority women are advocating for language in the new act that specifically allocates funds to communities of color. More specifically, Tanis and her organization are seeking funding for small community groups which have closer cultural ties to women of color that larger organizations don’t have. Rita Smith, the Executive Director of the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, a Denver-based national organization that develops policy...more

Countries: United States
Variables: DV-PRACTICE-2

"An outreach coordinator for Black Women’s Blueprint, Dowd feels policy makers have something of an elitist outlook concerning which organizations should get funding and who should be in charge of managing the resources. She says she has been in domestic violence sessions with mostly black women where she, despite her years of on-the-ground experience with women of color, often has to play second fiddle to a 20 or 30-something white woman with a graduate degree but lacks the sophisticated sass and ethnic intuition black women need to be uplifted emotionally from abusive relationships. 'OK, this is the deal. Take this ‘V’ and put it on your head and then another...more

Countries: United States
Variables: DV-DATA-1

"Domestic violence advocates say black women should be particularly active in writing and calling their congressmen to support the reauthorization of the VAWA because it affects them more than any other racial group. In fact, Black women experience domestic violence at a rate 35 percent higher than white women." (para 18).

Countries: United States
Variables: LRCM-PRACTICE-1

"Kereen Odate, Acting Director at the Center for Women’s Development at Medgar Evers College in New York, says black women are reluctant to discuss sexual and domestic abuse for fear of 'vilifying the black man.'" (para 27). "Odate says there has always been something of an unexplored history of sexually dysfunctional behavior in the black community that dates back to slavery. For example, Odate cites mating practices that forced black male slaves to have intercourse with female slaves as the origin of shame that keeps black communities silence about domestic and sexual abuse to this very day. 'You were raped,' Odate says, 'but you weren’t raped because it was for...more

Countries: United States
Variables: LRW-DATA-1

"Sixty percent of black girls have experienced sexual abuse at the hands of black men before reaching the age of 18, according to an ongoing study conducted by Black Women’s Blueprint. More than 300 black women nationwide participated in the study and 700 more are being sought to take in the survey by March 2012." (para 1-2). "'A similar study which was conducted by The Black Women’s Health Imperative seven years ago found that that number was about 40 percent,' Tanis says. 'So that means there is an increase and we need to stop neglecting that issue.'" (para 4). "Tanis, citing the 60 percent sexual assault rate, urges black women...more

Countries: United States
Variables: MMR-DATA-1

"Astria Toppenish Hospital is one of a string of providers across the nation that have stopped providing labor and delivery care in an effort to control costs — even as maternal deaths increase at alarming rates in the United States, and as more women develop complications that can be life-threatening." (para 5). "The United States is already the most dangerous developed country in the world for women to give birth, with a maternal mortality rate of 23.8 per 100,000 live births — or more than one death for every 5,000 live deliveries. Recent figures show that the problems are particularly acute in minority communities and especially among Native American women,...more

Countries: United States
Variables: CWC-DATA-2

"Three days before Christmas, the only hospital in this remote city on the Yakama Indian Reservation abruptly closed its maternity unit without consulting the community, the doctors who delivered babies there or even its own board. At least 35 women were planning to give birth at Astria Toppenish Hospital in January alone, and the sudden closure — which violated the hospital’s commitment to the state to maintain critical services in this rural area — threw their plans into disarray. Victoria Barajas, 34, expecting her first child, scrambled to find a new doctor before her due date, Jan. 7. Jazzmin Maldonado, a 29-year-old schoolteacher due to give birth soon, wondered how...more