In talking about misogyny and gender-based violence, it would be easy to slip into the conceit that men are the villains. But it’s not true. Granted, men are often brutal to women. Yet it is women who routinely manage brothels in poor countries, who ensure that their daughter’s genitals are cut, who feed sons before daughters, who take their sons but not their daughters to clinics for vaccination.

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