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No, Women Aren’t Treated the Same As Men
No man receives the same hatred women do.
Seven years ago, the women of Argentina got fed up and started a movement that expanded to the rest of the continent.
After an explosion of gender-based violence in the news, women organized the first march with the name: #NiUnaMenos, “not one less woman”, demanding actions to end the violence. Nearly one woman a day was killed in the hands of a man in those days.
This, as you can imagine, caused just the kind of “not all men” backlash as #MeToo did in the US. “It should be #NiUnoMenos,” critics said, highlighting that men, too, die violently.
And most importantly, highlighting that women are, in their opinion, no different from men and shouldn’t be treated differently. That our struggles don’t deserve a specific focus.
Seven years later, many positive things have happened. #NiUnaMenos has spread all over the continent, and the new term, femicidio became a part of our vocabulary to denote the specific nature of gender-based violence.
But many things haven’t changed.
Nearly 2.000 more women have died in Argentina since then, many of them in the hands of their partners or former partners. Violence against women is still rampant. It’s still a way of wielding…
