 Until the 20th century, however, these commitments did not protect women from a frequent source of danger, their intimates:  husbands, lovers, relatives, friends, or employers. Indeed, for much of history these common threats to the personal security of women were not recognized as harms at all that it was the business of the state to address. Instead, they were frequently taken to be inevitable, a matter of right, or justifiable. Not surprisingly, a great deal of feminist legal scholarly attention and reform effort has been directed to revealing and changing the many ways in which law fails to protect women and girls against forms of violence such as rape (including date rape and marital rape), domestic abuse, sexual harassment, and other types of abuse. Although some countries do not collect official data and the nature and incidence of such violence varies widely by culture, many studies indicate that no society is exempt from these forms of violence. The 2012  United Nations Millennium Development Goals Report  observed that although equal numbers of boys and girls are now attending school across the globe, violence against women continues to undermine progress towards all goals. 