If they're doing a broad review, I hope they'll listen to criminologists and psychologists, not just lobbyists.

http://pubpages.unh.edu/~mas2/V71-Straus_Thirty-Years-Denying-Evidence-PV_10.pdf

The first part of this article summarizes results from more than 200 studies that have found gender symmetry in perpetration and in risk factors and motives for physical violence in martial and dating relationships. It also summarizes research that has found that most partner violence is mutual and that selfdefense explains only a small percentage of partner violence by either men or women. The second part of the article documents seven methods that have been used to deny, conceal, and distort the evidence on gender symmetry. The third part of the article suggests explanations for the denial of an overwhelming body of evidence by reputable scholars. The concluding section argues that ignoring the overwhelming evidence of gender symmetry has crippled prevention and treatment programs. Itsuggests ways in which prevention and treatment efforts might be improved by changing ideologically based programs to programs based on the evidence from the past 30 years of research.

Gender symmetry is a bit of a silly term. It's more complicated. There's symmetry in a lot of the low-end stuff, but the higher-end stuff is mostly men (who are much stronger).

Here are the methods this review (like so many others) will use:

Method 1: Conceal the Evidence

Method 2: Avoid Obtaining Evidence on Female Perpetration

Method 3: Selective Citation ofResearch

Method 4: State Conclusions That Contradict the Data

Method 5: Block Publication ofArticles That Report Gender Symmetry

Method 6: Prevent Funding ofResearch to Investigate Female Partner Violence

Method 7: Harass, Threaten, or Penalize Researchers Who Publish Evidence on Gender Symmetry

Trying to prevent violence against women, without considering the role women play hasn't worked. There have been decades of work done to stop "wife beaters", and women (and the occasional man, tee hee) keep dying. Feminists are like AIDS deniers - even if they mean well, they are causing people to die unnecessarily.

The other big cause of "violence against women" (if you look at the data and case studies) is "toxic masculinity" - men who think they've failed to support a woman, and commit murder-suicide rather than just walking away. Maybe the government should try to end this "toxic masculinity", and teach men that they aren't responsible for women? A lot of the messaging seems to carry a different message though - it's all about "respect" for women, not self-respect (something murder-suicide perps probably lack - but I'm not a psychologist or criminologist - take everything I say with a grain of salt).

A final big cause of the really horrible shit is ex-partners. This is the only area where men are overwhelmingly perpetrators (though I suppose if women were losing "their" kids, they might try to even the odds).

The problem is, the feminists (and white knights) do not want to know what the cause of domestic violence against women is. If they admit there's a cause, then they admit that the men who commit the crimes have a reason for doing it. They can deal with the cause being "not enough feminism", but self-defence, or anger over a bitter custody dispute, or drug and alcohol abuse, or just about anything else sounds too much like it's excusing the crime.