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As women are empowered, violence can come down, for a number of reasons. By all measures, men are the more violent gender.

By all measures men are the more violent gender.

We like to think of women as peacemakers, not purveyors of violence.

The poorest and most backward societies are always those that put women down.

Violence may be a good focus to organize around, but we have to look at women's lives in our entirety.

Pre-state societies were far more violent than our own.

I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.

There is no city or country in the world where women and girls live free of the fear of violence. No leader can claim: 'this is not happening in my backyard.'

The more potent, unasked question is how society at large reacts to eager, voluntary violence by females, and to the growing evidence that women can be just as aggressive as men.

Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.