@Karim I will address the points separately
1. According to the Office of National Statistics (ONS) about 4.2% of men and 7.9% of women suffered domestic abuse in England and Wales during 2018. This equates to about 685,000 male victims and 1,300,000 women.
2. Between March 2018 to 2019, as many as 80 women lost their lives to acts of violence committed by a current or former partner, according to new figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), a shocking increase of 27% from the previous year.
3. A survey in November 2018 by Young Women’s Trust (YWT) found unequal pay is widespread with 20 per cent of women reporting being paid less than male colleagues for the same or similar work. To mark this continued disparity, Unequal Pay Day (20 November 2020) highlights the point in the year women effectively start working for free.
4. Police referred more cases of violence against women and girls to the CPS across all crime types during the first three months of the pandemic, rising 5% to 64,007 from 61,179 in the previous quarter.
The number of rape cases referred increased by 15%, domestic abuse cases increased by 8% and child abuse cases rose by 9%. However, in the most recent quarter the volume of suspects charged (but not yet prosecuted) by the CPS across all crimes of violence against women and girls decreased by 4% from 37,403 to 35,799.
5. Government cuts could be driving down rape prosecutions after leaving the criminal justice system “close to breaking point”, a watchdog has warned.
HM Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate (HMCPSI) said stretched police forces were taking months to investigate allegations and referring fewer for potential charges.
A report called for the government to investigate the impact of under-resourcing, after the proportion of reported rapes resulting in a charge fell to just 1.4 per cent.
Chief Inspector Kevin McGinty said: “There can only be an effective criminal justice system – and one in which the public can have confidence – if it is properly resourced.
“The one we have has been under-resourced so that it is close to breaking point. In the case of the police, it may have gone beyond that, and while that is for others to assess, the number of rape allegations lost in the investigative process is damning.”
6. The TUC’s research into sexual harassment found that over half of all women have experienced some form of sexual harassment at work – a number that rises to nearly two third (63%) of women aged 18-24.
In any one year in the UK, more than 20% of employed women take time off work because of domestic abuse, and 2% lose their jobs as a direct result of it.
In 2016, 4 women were murdered by men in the workplace (either at or near their workplace or the perpetrator’s workplace).
7. The chief executives of the FTSE 100, the index of the UK’s largest publicly-listed companies, are still 94 per cent male. Almost one in four companies in the broader FTSE 350 still only have one woman on their board.
8. In the UK, 25% of people thought men should have more right to a job than women and said men made better business executives than women did.
Research has found some 82 per cent of all CEOs, 92 per cent of chairpersons and 73 per cent of directors are male – confirming statistics already highlighted by Office of National Statistics research.
Of 108 economic sectors looked at, 87 per cent were found to be biased towards men.
So it depends on which angle you examine the issues from. I am not in any way denying mens issues but to say the issues I've highlighted is a myth is ridiculous.
My perspective remains the same. If women were more highly regarded then mem by society then why do these issues exist?
1. According to the Office of National Statistics (ONS) about 4.2% of men and 7.9% of women suffered domestic abuse in England and Wales during 2018. This equates to about 685,000 male victims and 1,300,000 women.
2. Between March 2018 to 2019, as many as 80 women lost their lives to acts of violence committed by a current or former partner, according to new figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), a shocking increase of 27% from the previous year.
3. A survey in November 2018 by Young Women’s Trust (YWT) found unequal pay is widespread with 20 per cent of women reporting being paid less than male colleagues for the same or similar work. To mark this continued disparity, Unequal Pay Day (20 November 2020) highlights the point in the year women effectively start working for free.
4. Police referred more cases of violence against women and girls to the CPS across all crime types during the first three months of the pandemic, rising 5% to 64,007 from 61,179 in the previous quarter.
The number of rape cases referred increased by 15%, domestic abuse cases increased by 8% and child abuse cases rose by 9%. However, in the most recent quarter the volume of suspects charged (but not yet prosecuted) by the CPS across all crimes of violence against women and girls decreased by 4% from 37,403 to 35,799.
5. Government cuts could be driving down rape prosecutions after leaving the criminal justice system “close to breaking point”, a watchdog has warned.
HM Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate (HMCPSI) said stretched police forces were taking months to investigate allegations and referring fewer for potential charges.
A report called for the government to investigate the impact of under-resourcing, after the proportion of reported rapes resulting in a charge fell to just 1.4 per cent.
Chief Inspector Kevin McGinty said: “There can only be an effective criminal justice system – and one in which the public can have confidence – if it is properly resourced.
“The one we have has been under-resourced so that it is close to breaking point. In the case of the police, it may have gone beyond that, and while that is for others to assess, the number of rape allegations lost in the investigative process is damning.”
6. The TUC’s research into sexual harassment found that over half of all women have experienced some form of sexual harassment at work – a number that rises to nearly two third (63%) of women aged 18-24.
In any one year in the UK, more than 20% of employed women take time off work because of domestic abuse, and 2% lose their jobs as a direct result of it.
In 2016, 4 women were murdered by men in the workplace (either at or near their workplace or the perpetrator’s workplace).
7. The chief executives of the FTSE 100, the index of the UK’s largest publicly-listed companies, are still 94 per cent male. Almost one in four companies in the broader FTSE 350 still only have one woman on their board.
8. In the UK, 25% of people thought men should have more right to a job than women and said men made better business executives than women did.
Research has found some 82 per cent of all CEOs, 92 per cent of chairpersons and 73 per cent of directors are male – confirming statistics already highlighted by Office of National Statistics research.
Of 108 economic sectors looked at, 87 per cent were found to be biased towards men.
So it depends on which angle you examine the issues from. I am not in any way denying mens issues but to say the issues I've highlighted is a myth is ridiculous.
My perspective remains the same. If women were more highly regarded then mem by society then why do these issues exist?