Over all the countries, female assaulting males overall 31.6%, and men assaulting women at 24.4%. Severe assaults: women assaulting men at 10.6%, and men assaulting women at 7.6%.
This is not intended to distract from the fact that women should not be assaulted, and measures should be taken against such behavior. Besides changing sexist organizations that protect women only, ... what else can we do?
http://pubpages.unh.edu/~mas2/ID41H3a.pdf
Family Research laboratory, University of New Hampshire.
Notice page 8: titled Ratio of male to female assaults, explains Table
Page 23:Actual Table
2007-08-01 16:04:27 · 9 answers · asked by Nep 6 in Social Science ➔ Gender Studies
Yes, Patois. Those statistics are better for determining who calls the cops more, and the cops do something about it(arrest the person) ---- (Department of Justice)
2007-08-01 18:30:05 · update #1
Good point Wendy G. --
2007-08-01 18:33:13 · update #2
On the first page of that study it states "the injury rate for female victims of PV is much higher than the rate for male victims. For this reason and because of the lesser financial resources of women, there is a much greater need for resource services for women than for men."
According to this study, doing away with resources for women isn't the answer.
I think that awareness needs to be raised about the issue, just as you are doing. I think that the ideas that men are "tough" and can "take it like a man" along with the "men don't hit women" mentality (all of which have their roots in patriarchy) leads some women (typically young women, which may account for the high incidences of female-only PV among the college students that were the only subjects for this study) to think it's "okay" to hit men (men can "take it"), and that there will be no repercussions (men don't hit women). This is not only wrong, it can be very dangerous for the women who may try to take advantage of the "men don't hit women" social custom.
2007-08-01 18:27:52 · answer #1 · answered by wendy g 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
This does not seem right. Perhaps they used different factors to measure assault when comparing the two sexes. I would say that it is bad either way whether men or women are the highest in assaulting each other.
There should definitely be more organizations and public awareness campaigns on abuse and else on simply women's abuse. Overall , it does not matter who or what is abusing you, if you are being abused , it is wrong and should not be tolerated by society.
2007-08-02 02:30:53 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Those are some pretty interesting facts, and figures, to say the least. I mean, its hard to argue with statistics.
I dont really know why that is. Perhaps it is that in this day and age, women will not just sit back and take it, whereas only about 40 years ago, women were expected to be submissive to men. No woman would have even thought about raising her hand to her partner. Now, not so much.
Though I do believe some women take it a little far, ehh Mrs. Babbit?
2007-08-01 16:20:08 · answer #3 · answered by Time Bomb 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋
men are usually stronger than women and tend to try to control through strength. women are trained from infancy to be nurtures. For most women violence is not in their nature.
Until women start picking men to have babies with that are nurturers, the stats will not change. Boys need real men to help them grow into good men . A good woman raising a boy alone cannot model for him the kind of man he should be. Only a man can do that.
2007-08-01 16:12:45 · answer #4 · answered by julia j 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Besides opening up domestic shelters for men, there needs to be awareness of the problem.
2007-08-01 16:52:05 · answer #5 · answered by Karen 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This gets back to how they are raised. Girls in my class rooms have no conscious and no guilt in fighting. They especially don't care who they hurt. Their attitude is "How dare they get me mad. They deserve to be punished."
Men and Boys do have a conscious. If this was not true then why is it that more girls are in fights then boys. My principal said that you should never get in between two girls fighting because they fight to the death.
2007-08-01 16:18:07 · answer #6 · answered by eric l 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here are more reliable statistics from the American Bar Association:
http://www.abanet.org/domviol/statistics.html
And, from the U.S. Department of Justice:
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/fvs02.pdf
2007-08-01 18:10:08 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
sounds like a very slanted figure to me. My experience shows the opposite, by a far greater number.
2007-08-01 16:12:21 · answer #8 · answered by randy 7 · 4⤊ 3⤋
finally...women of the world stand up and kick some ***!
2007-08-01 16:08:01 · answer #9 · answered by sarah r 4 · 0⤊ 6⤋