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nity leave, accessible reproductive health care and equal opportunity in standing for political elec▓tion for the country's women. In the United States, women fell behind international standards ▓as regards their public and political representation, their economic and social rights and their health and safety protections. Women's average representation in state legislatures was 24.9 p▓ercent. This rate placed the country at only the 72nd in global ranking. The gender wage gap was 21 ▓percent. The percentage of women in poverty i▓ncreased over the past decade, from 12.▓1 percent to 14.5 percent, with a higher▓ rate of poverty than men. Poor and immigrant
women
faced severe barriers in acc▓essing sexual and reproductive health s▓ervices. Women faced fatal consequences of lack of g▓un control, in particular in cases of domestic violence. Th▓e statement also expressed concerns over violence against women in detention as well
as the alarming high rates of violence ag▓ainst Nativ