I always take studies with a pinch of salt, not least because people don't tend to mention the ones that don't fit their agenda, like the below. It's always been said that men are more reluctant to report domestic abuse and interestingly more recent studies which have asked women instead paint a very different picture. However, most of the studies concur that men do the most harm, likely due to their strength, even though women are possibly more likely to be the abuser.
Women are more likely to be verbally and physically aggressive towards their partners than men suggests a new study presented as part of a symposium on intimate partner violence (IPV).
Analysis showed that women were more likely to be physically aggressive to their partners than men and that men were more likely to be physically aggressive to their same-sex others.
Furthermore, women engaged in significantly higher levels of controlling behaviour than men, which significantly predicted physical aggression in both sexes.
Dr Elizabeth Bates of the University of Cumbria explained: "This was an interesting finding. Previous studies have sought to explain male violence towards women as rising from patriarchal values, which motivate men to seek to control women's behaviour, using violence if necessary.
"This study found that women demonstrated a desire to control their partners and were more likely to use physical aggression than men. This suggests that IPV may not be motivated by patriarchal values and needs to be studied within the context of other forms of aggression, which has potential implications for interventions."
Women more likely to be aggressive than men in relationships
June 26, 2014
British Psychological Society
www.google.com/amp/s/medicalxpress.com/news/2014-06-women-aggressive-men-relationships.amp
The study, which challenges the long-standing view that women are overwhelmingly the victims of aggression, is based on an analysis of 34,000 men and women by a British academic.
"It's a complex argument but we do get more women aggressing against male partners than men against female partners," said Dr George. "The view is that women are acting in self-defence but that is not true - 50 per cent of those who initiate aggression are women.
His research is backed up by historical records which show that men who were beaten by their wives were publicly humiliated in a ceremony called a "skimmington procession". The procession was named after the ladle used to skim milk during cheese making.
Women are more violent, says study
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/women-are-more-violent-says-study-622388.html?amp
The article summarised the latest official statistics and research on domestic violence, providing evidence that most domestic violence is two-way, involving women as well as men.[2] This was regarded as a breach of policy, because, on its own website, RAWA says its domestic violence policy “is historically framed by a feminist analysis of gendered power relations” which, contrary to the international evidence, denies women’s role in domestic violence.
The problem is often more complicated, and may involve both women and men as perpetrators”. Based on the findings of an analysis of more than 11,000 American men and women aged eighteen to twenty-eight, the letter concluded:
"When the violence is one-sided … women were the perpetrators about 70% of the time. Men were more likely to be injured in reciprocally violent relationships (25%) than were women when the violence was one-sided (20%). That means both men and women agreed that men were not more responsible than women for intimate partner violence."
After analysing the data, which contained information about domestic violence reported by 11,370 respondents on 18,761 heterosexual relationships, the following conclusions were reached:
- A woman’s perpetration of domestic violence is the strongest predictor of her being a victim of partner violence;[7]
- Among relationships with non-reciprocal violence, women were reported to be the perpetrator in a majority of cases; [8]
- Women reported greater perpetration of violence than men did (34.8 per cent against 11.4 per cent, respectively).[9]
Based on the information available, the authors concluded:
Our findings that half of relationships with violence could be characterised as reciprocally violent are consistent with prior studies. We are surprised to find, however, that among relationships with nonreciprocal violence, women were the perpetrators in a majority of cases, regardless of participant gender. One possible explanation for this, assuming that men and women are equally likely to initiate physical violence, is that men, who are typically larger and stronger, are less likely to retaliate if struck first by their partner. Thus, some men may be following the norm that “men shouldn’t hit women” when struck first by their partner.
Women Can Be as Violent as Men
quadrant.org.au/magazine/2018/09/women-can-violent-men/
Design/methodology/approach
The paper's approach is to re‐examine NISVS data, research on the impact of IPV on male victims and the system's response to it.
Findings
In the last year, males are more often the victim of intimate partner physical violence, psychological aggression and control over sexual/reproductive health.
Social implications
Increased domestic violence education directed at women and services to men should lead to a reduction of DV against women as well as men, since woman aggressors frequently are themselves victimized subsequently.
US National Survey: more men than women victims of intimate partner violence
www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/17596591211244166/full/html