440 pairs of women's shoes were hung on one of the city walls in #Istanbul. This is the number of women murdered by their husbands in Turkey during the year

Men are more likely to be murdered, because they are more likely to murder each other. Think about how, primarily male gang violence alone would contribute to statistics like that. More women attempt suicide. More men are successful because they tend to use more violent methods that leave less time for intervention. Men are more likely to work in fields that have high rates of workplace death like trucking and commercial fishing. These are absolutely social issues that need addressing, but that doesn't change the fact that women that are murdered are extremely likely to have been murdered by their partner. The most common cause of death for pregnant women is homicide, usually at the hands of their partner. Women are more likely to be victims of domestic abuse and that abuse is far more likely to result is severe injury or death. Categorizing the murder of women by their partners as controversial because men die more in different ways is dismissive at best and misogynistic at worst.

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