Hi guys, and hopefuly girls aswell,

With the recent increase of feminist posts on facebook's pages of Upworthy and Mic I'm coming across a large number of statistics being used that don't match the statistics I came across on several other sources, and fail to present an objective picture of facts. To combat that, and to make it easier for people to quote factual statistics without always having to look things up, and to help spread awareness for men's issues, I was hoping to create a series of infographics with my background in illustration and graphic design.

I would greatly appreciate any help any of you could give me in creating a clear, and most importantly CORRECT (and as unbiassed as possible) reflection of facts and statistics. Mainly with the focus on men's issues. (although if there is overlap with feminist issues, I have no problem including those aswell) But it seems to me as though feminists have more than enough infographics of their own.

So feel free to share any statistics that you have lying arround that you can also verify with credible sources. I'm thinking CDC/FBI, or university/academic studies/servey's etc. I'm sure having such infographics would help us all out :-)

The main subjects I suppose would be: rape, sexual assault, domestic violence, wage gap, education, and perhaps also biological differences between men and women with relation to interests, choices, treatment of the other gender, etc.

(and please feel free to correct me if I've got faulty data, or interprate things wrong)

STATS/DATA:

1) For 80 years rape was defined by the FBI as "The carnal knowledge of a FEMALE forcibly and against her will.". Last year it was redefined as "The penetration, no matter how slight, of the vagina or anus with any body part or object, or oral penetration by a sex organ of another person, without the consent of the victim." Which has been improved somewhat, but still doesn't allow for women to be seen as rapists. It doesn't include sexual cohersian by women, or having sex with a drunk/drugged man. Or the oral stimulation of a man against his will, or the oral stimulation of herself using any of the man's body parts. While on the other hand, those same situations consist of a large part of the rape cases against men. So by definition, men and women still can not be victims of female rapists. So statistics will still not reflect the actual state of affairs.

When you intentionally define rape to exclude female perpretrators and male victims, you are obviously going to find a larger number of male perpretrators and female victims.

2) According to the CDC's most recent national intimate partner and sexual violence servey, 40% of the people who perpetrated forced sexual intercourse onto people in the previous year were women. Yet those women are not considered rapists, and the people they victimized (men ánd women) are not categorized as rape victims.

3) More than 1 in 3 women (35.6%) and more than 1 in 4 men (28.5%) in the United States have experienced rape, physical violence, and/or stalking by an intimate partner in their lifetime. Source: http://www.cdc.gov/ViolencePrevention/pdf/NISVS_Report2010-a.pdf

4) About 1 in 4 women (24.3%) and 1 in 7 men (13.8%) have experienced severe physical violence by an intimate partner (e.g., hit with a fist or something hard, beaten, slammed against something) at some point in their lifetime. Source: http://www.cdc.gov/ViolencePrevention/pdf/NISVS_Report2010-a.pdf

5) The FBI maintains that 8% of the rape accusations are unfounded, (one of the more modest numbers) close to 40% of rape alligations are disproven, and in 25% the accuser withdraws their accusation.

6) Women are more likely than men to stalk, attack and psychologically abuse their partners, according to a University of Florida study that finds college women have a new view of the dating scene. In a survey of 2,500 students at UF and the University of South Carolina between August and December 2005, more than a quarter (29 percent) reported physically assaulting their dates and 22 percent reported being the victims of attacks during the past year. Thirty-two percent of women reported being the perpetrators of this violence, compared with 24 percent of men. In a separate survey of 1,490 UF students, one quarter (25 percent) said they had been stalked during the past year and 7 percent reported engaging in stalking, of whom a majority (58 percent) were female.

7) One study published in 2005 found that nearly 10% of women surveyed admitted to using physical force, verbal cohersion, or a man's incapacitated state to get sex from an unwilling man. Another 5.4% admitted being tempted to do so. Source: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023%2FA%3A1024648106477

8) "Only" 4-6% of men rape anyone and are often repeat offenders.

9) Men consist of 93% of workforce injuries and deaths. 80% of suicide victims are men. 95% of the prison population are men. (women generally have far shorter sentances) 85% of the homeless are men. Men die 5 jears earlier & more often from every major disease but breast cancer.

10) In lesbian relationships, the rate of domestic violence is extremely high. Some reports claiming 17-45% of lesbians report having been the victim of a least one act of physical violence perpetrated by a lesbian partner. A study in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence reported that 31% report one or more incidents of physical abuse. (verbal/emotional/psychological forms of abuse not included, which tend to be higher in women of all orientations)

11) Children under the age of 12 are far more likely to be killed by their mothers, than anyone else. Mothers represent about 45% of those who kill children, far outnumbering any other category of child killers. Mothers are also more than twice as likely to abuse children as fathers. Source: Janice Flamengo: What's wrong with women's studies?

12) 80% of inmates in prisons were raised by single mothers