6/06Estimated percentage of women in U.S. prisons or jails who are single mothers: 77

U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics

11/98Estimated number of American women arrested for child abuse since 1977 after using drugs or alcohol while pregnant: 200

Women’s Law Project (Philadelphia)

    Years in prison to which a South Carolina woman was sentenced for this in 1992: 8

Women’s Law Project (Philadelphia)

4/04Ratio of the number of Afghan men who have registered to the number of women who have done so: 10:3

United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (Kabul)

6/04Estimated percentage of women in Pakistani prisons whose crime was fornication: 80

National Commission on the Status of Women (Islamabad, Pakistan)

8/91Year Brazil’s Supreme Court first ruled that it is illegal for a man to kill his adulterous wife to defend his honor: 1991

Human Rights Watch (N.Y.C)