Throughout 2024, the Guardian aimed to report on every woman allegedly killed by a man, drawing on the work of campaigns such as Counting Dead Women, the Femicide Census and Killed Women.
In recent years in the UK, a woman has been killed by a man every three days on average, yet most of their stories have gone unheard. The Guardian wants to help change that.
This year, the toll of women whose deaths have led to a man being charged has reached 80. Here, we mark each of their lives.
None of these incidents are linked in any way other than that a woman has been killed and a man charged in connection with her death.
How many men were killed in the same period?
Sadly men don’t matter
How many men were killed by women in the same time period?
Hard to tell exactly but I find this that says there were 583 homicides.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/283093/homicides-in-england-and-wales/
So why the fuck isn’t the story that seven times as many men get killed?
I would be curious to know the cross-gender numbers. How many men killed women and vice versa? I would imagine there’s a pretty big imbalance there* but would want to see the numbers instead of my own feelings. That very well could tell a story.
* to be clear, I’m a man and not the kind who thinks that all men are predators or whatever. What I said above was based on the fact that here in the US, the overwhelming majority of school shootings are committed by men and there are easy to find numbers to back it up. But that doesn’t necessarily apply to overall killings by adults in another country.
That doesn’t solve anything. This is not a competition. If we’re discussing this issue in good faith then we should be trying to dig deeper into the root causes rather than just tallying up the scores.
I think it’s pretty firmly established scientifically that men are a lot more violent and dangerous than women. We tend to have a lot larger muscle mass and higher bone density as well as higher propensity for violent aggression.
However I think it’s also pretty firmly established that, although by far most of the violent crimes are committed by men, by far most men never commit a violent crime of any sort. So what we’re actually dealing with is a small percentage of all men who commit nearly all violent crimes.
So then what are we to do about it? We need to find ways to detect these men (men with a high propensity for violent aggression) and intervene to help steer them away from aggression, to better manage their anger, or to otherwise find ways to mitigate their risk of offending.
Fair points, but my comment was in light of all the “but more men are getting killed!” comments. The victim’s gender without context isn’t a very interesting data point to me, but it could very well be if you combine it with something else like the gender of the killer.
It’s not really any more interesting. We’re never going to see an epidemic of women killing each other. There’s no all-female gangs out there that I know of. The most common female-on-female violence is high school bullying.
Because that isn’t the case? The article doesn’t state 80 women were killed in total, but that 80 women were killed allegedly by men. So the total amount of killed women is higher than 80
As a man I’m deeply troubled that it’s not safe for me to go out anymore. More protections for the male gender, thanks!
Obviously horrible but somehow less than I thought it would be :/
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I’m sad to say that apparently Australia has the unevitable situation where 100 women were killed by men in 2024.
The population of the UK is 68 million, Australia is 27 million.
Just think about that for a moment.
Canada had 172 women murdered by men in 2024. Population is 41.6 million.
1 in 270,000? Ignoring what those odds are actually for, I’d like those numbers. Less than getting struck by lightning, more than a shark attack. More than good enough odds for just about any bet. Not exactly the intention behind thinking about it for a moment, but it was one of those intrusive thoughts…
If only it was as noteworthy for rarity as struck by lightning, instead of the statistic it is.
Not all Australian humans are female…
and not all Australian killers are male
the data for this year isn’t out yet but apparently the stat for last year was 409 people murdered in Australia, so i guess ~102 is what you’d expect if every gender killed equally
This stat is meaningless without the full context. How many men were killed in the same period? How many women committed murders in the same? How many men killed by women in the same? Putting a gender label on a headline might do well for clicks and enraging an easily triggered segment of the population, but hardly points to any issue that needs addressing.
