Consider the facts. In every region of the world, more than a quarter of women are subject to violence by men they know and live with. Two-thirds of the most malnourished children are girls; two-thirds of illiterate adults are women. There have even been regionally successful attempts to ensure that female babies simply are not born. Popular entertainment for men includes showing women being degraded, violated, even tortured. In some parts of the planet, women are even sold as chattel to men, for use as they see fit. Needless to say, men enjoy access to economic and political power that only a handful of women have ever had.