In France, a woman is murdered by her partner every two and a half days on average, i.e. an average of 125 women a year, out of a population of 67 million.
In the USA, 3 women die of femicide every day, according to the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), i.e. 4,970 women die every year, out of a population of 333 million.
One of the best systems for protecting women's rights is Sweden, according to UN Women, where one woman dies of feminicide every 6 days, out of a population of 10 million. What UN Women has called 'Europe's gender war' and 'the world's most silent genocide'. There is no country where women are not killed because of their gender.
Worldwide, men are responsible for the overwhelming majority of antisocial behaviors. In the United States, they represent 84% of those responsible for fatal road accidents, 96% of students punished for acts involving harm to property and people in middle school, 94% of those convicted by the courts, 88% of those accused of murder, 98% of perpetrators of sexual violence, etc. The list seems endless. Above all, it has a cost. A direct cost for the State, which spends billions of euros each year on police, judicial, medical and educational services to deal with it. And an indirect cost for society, which must respond to the physical and psychological suffering of victims, and suffers losses in productivity and destruction of property. Yet this reality is almost always ignored.
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Eva Kroczynski, a gender researcher at NYU and founder of We Consent, questions the reasons for this overrepresentation of men as the main perpetrators of violence and risky behavior, and attempts to estimate the financial cost of all of these harms for the State and therefore for each citizen. What is the cost, in the USA, in 2024, of the consequences of misogyny erected as a dominant cultural ideology? The gender researcher asks us the question: how could we one day eradicate patriarchy?