Since last year, Stop AAPI Hate , a coalition of advocacy groups and scholars that has been collecting incident reports to document the surge in anti-Asian racism catalyzed by the pandemic, has continually found that AAPI women are twice as likely to report racist incidents than AAPI men.

Racism intertwined with misogyny has always been a part of the lives of AAPI women, and the pandemic merely laid bare what went unnoticed before, the report, a collaboration between Stop AAPI Hate and the National Asian Pacific American Womens Forum (NAPAWF), concludes.

The report is based on findings from Stop AAPI Hates ongoing database of self-reported incidents, as well as a national survey of AAPI women that NAPAWF conducted in February.

The majority of racist attacks reported by AAPI women involved them experiencing verbal harassment or being called derogatory names and slurs, according to the report. The incidents most commonly occurred on public streets and/or sidewalks, as well as in businesses.