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New York Times: Nearly 1 in 5 Women in U.S. Survey Say They Have Been Sexually Assaulted
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An exhaustive government survey of rape 
and domestic violence released on Wednesday affirmed that sexual violence against women remains endemic in the United States and in some instances may be far more common than previously thought.
Nearly one in five women surveyed said they had been raped or had experienced an attempted rape at some point, and one in four reported having been beaten by an intimate partner. One in six women have been stalked, according to the report.
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