WILPF/PeaceWomen themes covered:
General Women, Peace and Security: 4/15;
Conflict Prevention: 3/15;
Disarmament: 0/15;
Displacement and Humanitarian Response: 1/15;
Participation: 5/15;
Peace Processes: 2/15;
Peacekeeping: 3/15;
Protection: 4/15;
Reconstruction and Peacebuilding: 0/15;
Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: 4/15;
Implementation: 0/15;
Justice, Rule of Law, SSR: 3/15;
Human Rights: 1/15.

S/PV.6948: "Women’s civil society organisations need greater capacity to monitor, inform and provide security services in conjunction with law enforcement authorities."

WILPF/PeaceWomen themes covered:
General Women, Peace and Security: 0/3;
Conflict Prevention: 1/3;
Disarmament: 0/3;
Displacement and Humanitarian Response: 0/3;
Participation: 0/3;
Peace Processes: 0/3;
Peacekeeping: 0/3;
Protection: 1/3;
Reconstruction and Peacebuilding: 0/3;
Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: 1/3;
Implementation: 0/3;
Justice, Rule of Law, SSR: 1/3;
Human Rights: 0/3.

S/PV.7019: "Among them are innocent civilians, including women and children, who should have been safe from violence. We must use the tools at hand to improve compliance with international humanitarian law in order to prevent the loss of innocent lives. "

Civil Society Engagement | Financial:
The United States will commit nearly $44 million to a set of initiatives designed to empower women. The largest portion, about $17 million, will support civil society groups that focus on women in Afghanistan.
$14 million will also go to nongovernmental organisations working to make clean water more available in conflict zones, because women and girls are at higher risk of being attacked when collecting water.

Financial | UN Engagement:
$1.7 million will help fund UN activities, including Special Representative Wallstrom’s office, and $11 million will help expand literacy, job training, and maternal health services for refugee women and girls.

Policy:
Develop our own National Action Plan with determined funding to accelerate the implementation of Resolution 1325 across our government and with our partners in civil society. But as several have already said: Action plans and funding are only steps toward a larger goal.

**Note: Data is provided for 2010. No WPS commitments have been made in 2011.

Profit from Arms Transfer in 2012: $9,163,000,000
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UN Women Government Total Contribution in 2012: $8,400,000

Congressional and USAID Budgets:
The FY 2013 budget gave attention to gender equality and advancing the status of women to achieve U.S. foreign policy objectives;

In 2013, the U.S. government launched several new initiatives, built on ongoing activities, and coordinated through bilateral, multilateral, and civil society engagements, elevating the U.S. commitment to WPS;

The U.S. committed $10 million to supporting new and ongoing efforts that align with the Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative. Such efforts included improving access to services for survivors of gender-based violence in places such as South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, and Haiti;

USAID provided $400,000 to the UN Population Fund to help address women’s health needs including emergency obstetric care and $1.1 million for to other implementing partners for protection activities inside Syria, including training for community responders in psychosocial support and child protection.

HDI (Human Development Index):The United States was ranked 5th.

The United States is included in the "Very High Human Development" category.

Women from the United States are on duty in the following peacekeeping missions:

MINUSTAH (12),

MONUSCO (1),

UNAMA (1),

UNMIL (1),

UNMISS (1),

UNTSO (0).

S/PV.6903: "We would like to see the entire mission leadership — special representatives of the Secretary- General and their deputies, force commanders, police commissioners and directors of mission support — taking action to ensure adherence to the zero-tolerance policy for misconduct. That includes swiftly investigating allegations of sexual exploitation or abuse and repatriating offending units."

Key women's organisation's (National Organisation for Women) efforts in regard to gender issues include the following:
- Number of conferences: 1 national annual conference, with 500 local and campus affiliates in all 50 states and the District of Columbia hosting numerous conferences and events per year;
- Social services provided: advocacy for reproductive rights and justice, economic justice, ending violence against women, racial justice, LGBTQ rights, and constitutional equality, training and education, lobbying and policymaking.

Types of social support provided:
Education: Yes
Anti-violence: Yes
Women's empowerment: Yes
Gender-related training: Yes
Political participation: Yes
Anti-human trafficking: No
Women's health: Yes
Lobbying and policymaking: Yes
Fundraising: Yes
1.41 million nonprofits were registered with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

The nonprofit sector contributed an estimated $905.9 billion to the US economy in 2013, composing 5.4 percent of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP).

The USA hosted the following high-level events in 2013:
- Equal Pay Symposium: 50 years since the equal pay act of 1963;
- Partners in Peace and Security: A Panel Discussion on the First Anniversary of the U.S. National Action Plan on Women, Peace, and Security: Progress and challenges;
- Religion, Women, Peace and Security Discussion with Ambassador Suzan Johnson Cook and The U.S. Civil Society Working Group on Women, Peace, and Security;
- National NOW Conference.

**Note: The information about the high-level events has been collected using available media sources.

Department of Defense Diversity and Inclusion Strategy 2012-2017:
- "Goal 1: Ensure Leadership Commitment to an Accountable and Sustained Diversity Effort Develop structures and strategies to equip leadership with the ability to manage diversity, be accountable, and engender an inclusive work environment that cultivates innovation and optimisation within the Department."
- "Goal 3: Sustainability. Federal agencies shall develop structures and strategies to equip leaders with the ability to manage diversity, be accountable, measure results, re-fine approaches on the basis of such data, and engender a culture of inclusion."

Department of Defense Military Leadership Diversity Commission: "The Services should provide diversity leadership education and training, distinct from traditional forms of general diversity training, to service members at every level."

The US NAP gives five objectives:
National Integration and Institutionalisation;
Participation in Peace Processes and Decision-Making;
Protection from Violence;
Conflict Prevention;
Access to Relief and Recovery.

The NAP contains no allocated or estimated budget. Instead, each responsible department is required to resource the actions within existing budgets. The primary implementation agencies (Department of State, Defense and USAID) are required to submit fully resourced individual implementation plans.

The US NAP is unique in setting a timeline for the three main departments in charge of implementation - Department of State, Department of Defense, and USAID – to develop their own departmental implementation plans. In August 2012 both State and USAID launched their organisational action plans. Moreover, the NAP mentions that the Interagency Policy Committee dedicated to Women, Peace and Security (WPS IPC) will later develop specific indicators for the purpose of monitoring implementation. Thus, the US NAP comes across as relatively unspecific because it delegates issues to the future. 

Military Expenditure in 2012: $684,780,000,000
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The NAP contains no allocated or estimated budget. Instead, each responsible department is required to resource the actions within existing budgets. The primary implementation agencies (Department of State, Defense and USAID) are required to submit fully resourced individual implementation plans.

Lower: 17.8%;

Upper: 20.0%.

Ratio (0 = Inequality, 1 = Equality): 0.38

Total law enforcement officers: 902,410.

Only 219 women, out of more than 14,000 U.S. police agencies, held top leadership positions.

United States Supreme Court:
3 women out of 9 seats (33.3%).

Circuit Court of Appeals:
51 women out of 165 active seats (30.9%).

Federal Court Judges in the U.S.:
451 women out of 1,874 seats (24.1%).

Ratio (0 = Inequality, 1 = Equality): 1.

Unemployment rate (percentage of female/male labour force):
Female: 9%;
Male: 9%.

Estimated earned income (PPP US$):
Female: 38,388;
Male: 40,000;
Ratio (0 = Inequality, 1 = Equality): 0.96.

Legislators, senior officials, and managers (%):
Female: 43, Male: 57;
Ratio (0 = Inequality, 1 = Equality): 0.74.

Professional and technical workers (%):
Female: 55, Male: 45;
Ratio (0 = Inequality, 1 = Equality): 1.20.

The enrolment difference between males and females is provided below (The theoretical maximum value is 100%. Increasing trends are considered a reflection of improving coverage at the specified level of education):

Literacy rate (%):
Female: 99;
Male: 99;
Ratio (0 = Inequality, 1 = Equality): 1

Enrolment in primary education
Ratio (0 = Inequality, 1 = Equality): 1

Enrolment in secondary education
Ratio (0 = Inequality, 1 = Equality): 1.02

Enrolment in tertiary education
Ratio (0 = Inequality, 1 = Equality): 1.41

While gender perspectives within the legal frameworks exist, they are not always fully effective, and discrimination (i.e.: gender, racial, and economic discrimination) can cause some groups to have disproportionate challenges equally accessing justice and utilising their rights.

Legal Framework in the United States includes:
Equal Pay Act, 1963;
Civil Rights Act, 1964;
The affirmative action policy of 1965 was expanded in 1967 to cover women as well as racial minorities;
Roe v. Wade, 1973;
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission;
Sex-segregated job advertisements were declared illegal by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (1968), upheld by the Supreme Court in 1973;
Title IX of the Education Amendment, 1972;
1986, in the decision of Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson, sexual harassment was established as illegal and discriminatory;
The Family Medical Leave Act, 1993;
Violence Against Women Act, 1994;
Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, 2009.

Presence a non-discrimination by sex clause in the constitution of the United States of America:
- The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. (Amendment XIX).

The U.S. Constitution does not guarantee equal rights for women.

The ban against women in military combat positions was repealed; this overturned a 1994 Pentagon decision restricting women from combat roles.

Reauthorisation of the Violence Against Women Act: The new bill extends coverage to women of Native American tribal lands who are attacked by non-tribal residents, as well as lesbians and immigrants.

While legal frameworks exist, they are not always fully effective, and discrimination (i.e.: gender, racial, and economic discrimination) can cause some groups to have disproportionate challenges equally accessing justice and utilising their rights.

Legal Framework in the United States includes:

Equal Pay Act, 1963;
Civil Rights Act, 1964;
The affirmative action policy of 1965 was expanded in 1967 to cover women as well as racial minorities;
Roe v. Wade, 1973;
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission;
Sex-segregated job advertisements were declared illegal by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (1968), upheld by the Supreme Court in 1973;
Title IX of the Education Amendment, 1972;
1986, in the decision of Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson, sexual harassment was established as illegal and discriminatory;
The Family Medical Leave Act, 1993;
Violence Against Women Act, 1994;
Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, 2009.

Presence of gender perspective in the constitution of the United States of America:
- The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. (Amendment XIX).

The U.S. government fully complies with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking. Federal law enforcement prosecuted more cases than in the previous reporting period, obtained convictions of sex and labour trafficking offenders, and strengthened training of government officials at the federal and state levels. Likewise, there were reports of increased prosecutions at the state level following the enactment of state anti-trafficking laws, which each of the 50 states has now adopted. Although the comprehensive nature of services was recognised by nongovernmental legal service providers, NGOs noted the critical need for an increase in the overall funding for comprehensive services.

While specialised services to support victims/survivors of sexual violence exist, the service quality, resource provision, geographic availability, adequate service availability based on national demand, and the functionality of national mechanism are not fully effective. 

Number of women's shelters: 66,58 (data based on point-in-time census data via the National Network to End Domestic Violence).

While veterans services for women veterans exist, the quality of service, outreach to engage female veterans in service access and utalisation, and the availability of gender-sensitive services at all locations are not fully effective.

While specialised services to support victims/survivors of sexual violence exist, the service quality, resource provision, geographic availability, adequate service availability based on national demand, and the functionality of national mechanism are not fully effective. 

While specialised services to support victims/survivors of human trafficking exist, the service quality, resource provision, geographic availability, adequate service availability based on national demand, and the functionality of national mechanism are not fully effective. 

There is a shelter crisis for trafficking victims in the United States. The Home Foundation estimates that there are less than 100 beds nationally for an estimated 100,000 annually identified trafficking victims. Placing trafficking victims in existing homeless or domestic violence shelters is not an adequate solution due to the unique needs of this population.

While a wide range of services and resources are made available to refugees, asylum seekers, and IDPs, these services are usually provided by local service providers, therefore making these services and resources less available in some geographic locations.

A total of 69,909 persons were admitted to the United States as refugees during 2013.

According to US Homeland Security, 32,117 (45.9%) female refugees were admitted into the United States.

Female immigrants represent 51 percent of the overall foreign-born population, with 21.2 million immigrant women residing in the United States in 2013, out of a total immigrant population of 41.3 million. Overall, immigrants from Europe, Asia, the Caribbean, and South America were more likely to be women, while those from Mexico and Central America were more likely to be men.

Resettlement countries, such as the United States, have been responsive to UNHCR referrals of women-at-risk accepting thousands of persons each year.