For what it's worth, Erin Pizzey was one of the founders of one of the first women's refuges in the UK. Although she tried to make out that Chiswick was a one woman show, I knew two women who were involved in its establishment (but didn't blow their trumpets about it) and at roughly the same time, a group of Labour supporting women were setting up a similar house in Scotland - it just didn't get the media coverage.
By 1974, there were nearly 30 women's refuges around England and they formed the first "federation." When the held their 2nd conference a year later, they set out agreed principles for Women's Aid. One of these was the recognition that men's violence against women and children was the result of women's inequality in society. Erin Pizzey vehemently opposed the inclusion of this statement, but every other refuge voted for it. So, she parted company with Women's Aid in the mother of all huffs. (it's on page 165 of this book from my shelf - don't have an electronic reference to hand.)
After that, she traded on her status as the "founder of the first refuge," lobbying against local authority funding for any refuge but her own, insisting they were all run by militant feminists. Thankfully, most didn't listen. However, the bee has continued to buzz very noisily in her bonnet since what she perceived as a personal snub from Women's Aid, way back in 1975. Eventually, others at Chiswick gave her the heave ho as well when her increasingly bizarre techniques and ideas about women and children being "prone to violence" started to undermine both their reputation and the welfare of those who sought refuge.
She's still popular amongst certain sections of the media, particularly when they want an "authority" who can argue that women are as violent as men, the feminists who run refuges are on a mission to demonise all men, "emotional abuse" is just whining not real abuse, you know, that sort of thing.