In fact, somewhere in the country, a woman is raped every six minutes.
Women talk about their odds of being raped.
A 1992 study by the National Center for Victims of Crime found that one in eight females has been the victim of forcible rape or attempted rape sometime during her lifetime. Last year, the Department of Justice recalculated the odds of such sexual assaults as one in five. That means that one in five women will eventually be faced with making a decision about how to respond when suddenly confronted by a rapist. Those questions and the issues they raise have long been the subject of contentious debate and contradictory advice. Resist or submit Women's self-defense experts say that if you find yourself in a situation where your only choices are to resist or to submit, you should weigh your chances of escaping, attracting help or incapacitating the assailant.