A similar jump in years past:
“The Pentagon estimated that 26,000 service members experienced unwanted sexual contact in 2012, rising from 19,000 in 2010”
Are they? I realize that according to statistics I’ve been assaulted more often than most other women, but those assaults include women acting alone and women acting with men as well as men acting alone or in an all-male group. Men acting alone are still the most common, mind you.
The ratios may be different, but when one of the issues is low reporting and differences in how attacks are classified and/or counted in different contexts, it’s difficult to know. We need better data.