Incarceration for women is a shambles in the UK anyway - the vast vast majority of women are in prison for non-violent offences, on very short sentences and yet their rates of injury and death are appalling in comparison to male prisons - this date is from 2018, but I don't think any new data shows a better situation:
Last year (2017) there were 2,093 incidents of self harm per 1,000 female prisoners, up 12% on the previous year, compared with 445 incidents per 1,000 male prisoners, up 8%.
These are women who, for the most part, have been horrifically let down by society and, usually, targeted by men - abused, groomed, trafficked, addicted, made desperate by poverty - and they end up in prison because there is simply no help or support available for them. There have been serious calls - and some moves - made to essentially shut down female prisons as they are a pointless waste of money, given that they generally act as extortionately expensive storage for women who need medical care, social care, addiction support and resources to escape abuse.
There are of course some violent women but nowhere near the scale of men - women make up only 5% of the total prison population and less than a fifth of that tiny percentage are violent.
The absolutely ludicrous idea that you would look at the situation women are in and say 'I know, let's stick a man in there with them' shows such a moronic lack of critical thinking it genuinely beggars any belief. It's basically a matter of people being so so so incredibly determined to never be called a bigot that they'd rather see extremely vulnerable women terrorised than think for one second about what might be genuinely right or wrong.
What's interesting about this whole thing is that it shows very clearly the manipulative tactics men use to control and intimidate women and just how incredibly effective they are - to the extent that women will actually walk themselves under the bus, bowing all the time, trying to show how 'kind' they are, while muscular abusers in wigs laugh their arses off at them.
Crazy as this whole thing is, I really hope it wakes a lot of women up once and for all.