Tag: violence

This article attempts to villify suffragettes as violent while documenting that even the most militant attacked only property. The suffragettes pioneered hunger strikes and non-violent civil disobedience long before Gandhi.

http://www.historytoday.com/fern-riddell/weaker-sex-violence-and-suffragette-movement

“Worldwide, it has been estimated that violence against women is as serious a cause of death and incapacity among women of reproductive age as cancer, and a greater cause of ill-health than traffic accidents and malaria combined.” source:WHO

Why does an extra X chromosome make such a difference?