Women are more violent, says study. A new study ‘challenges the long-standing view that

women are overwhelmingly the victims of aggression,…based on an analysis of 34,000 men and women by a British

academic. Women lash out more frequently than their

husbands or boyfriends, concludes John Archer, professor of

psychology at the University of Central Lancashire and

president of the International Society for Research on

Aggression.

Male violence remains a more serious phenomenon: men

proved more likely than women to injure their partners.

Female aggression tends to involve pushing, slapping and

hurling objects. Yet men made up nearly 40 per cent of the

victims in the cases that he studied – a figure much higher

than previously reported.

… Speaking last night, he said that female aggression

was greater in westernised women because they were

“economically emancipated” and therefore not afraid of ending

a relationship.

“Feminist writers say most of the acts against men are not

important but the same people have used the same surveys

to inflate the number of women who are attacked,” he said. “In

the past it would not even have been considered that women

are violent. My view is that you must base social policy on the

whole evidence.” ‘ Independent