Every day, nearly 3 women are killed by an intimate partner — making the United States one of the deadliest countries for women and girls.
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Moreover, in the US,
almost three women are killed by an intimate partner every day. Just as in the case of Aszia Johnson, women in the U.S. are predominantly killed by men they know, and largely by current or former intimate partners. Of all intimate partner female homicides in 2018,
92% of victims were killed by a man they knew, and
63% were killed by current husbands, boyfriends, or ex-husbands.
These staggering statistics demonstrate the misogyny behind these violent deaths — In the United States, like in so many countries across the world,
women are being murdered because they are women.
The link between gender and violence in the U.S. becomes even more apparent when looking at the demographics of male homicides. Men are significantly
more likely to be killed by a stranger than women; strangers kill 29% of male homicide victims compared to only 10% of female victims. And while it is true that some men are murdered by their female partners, intimate partner violence accounts for only
about 5% of male homicides. Too often, these occur in the context of women
acting in self-defense against their abusive male partners.