The brutal gang-rape of a 23-year-old student in Delhi caught the attention of the world last month, highlighting the routine danger that women face everywhere, every day. Yet survey data suggests that rape is more common than most men – and many women – would typically assume. Since the early 1990s, the International Crime Victim Survey has asked women around the world whether in the last five years they have experienced sexual assault, and if so, whether this was in the for