The Hill News

Tonight across America, in depressed urban neighborhoods and affluent suburban towns, in rundown public spaces and on Ivy League campuses, women of every race, class, and ethnicity will be sexually assaulted.  

The statistics are devastating: in the United States today a rape occurs on average every two minutes.  Ultimately, 1 in 4 American women will endure this terrible crime in their lifetimes.  

How has our society responded to this epidemic of sexual violence?  Instead of outrage and concerted action, we see ineffectual responses at best and at worst the persistent belief that women are somehow responsible for their own victimization.  

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