![]() Additionally, AAPI low-wage women workers in service industries and health and beauty industries experienced the highest rates of long-term unemployment of any racial/ethnic group during the COVID-19 pandemic. Pervasive and harmful stereotypes of Asian American and Pacific Islander women as submissive, hyper-sexual, exotic, coupled with a long history of militarization and imperialism in East and Southeast Asian countries, continue to harm AAPI women. Stop AAPI Hate reported that AAPI women report hate and violence 2.2 times more often than men. The pandemic not only exposed, but exacerbated existing challenges facing Asian American and Pacific Islander women. 38 percent reported experiencing sexual harassment, and 12 percent reported experiencing gender and/or race-based physical violence. Other places where discrimination took place include healthcare facilities, schools, places of worship and their own neighborhoods. And nearly half of the respondents reported such incidents took place in public places such as restaurants, grocery stores, and shopping centers. The National Asian Pacific American Women Forum’s (NAPAWF) reports that nearly three out of four Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) women have experienced racism and/or discrimination in the past 12 months, according to a recent report, The State of Safety for Asian American and Pacific Islander Women. High profile cases of violence against Asian American women, particularly in New York City in recent weeks, have continued to raise the alarm bells. Six of those who were killed were Asian American women, emphasizing that women with multiple marginalized identities continue to experience a lack of safety in our communities. On March 16, 2021, eight people were murdered by a mass shooter in several Atlanta spas.
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