First thought was that most murder was committed by men, and a lot of that was to do with young men, drugs and crime. Second thought was that a lot of domestic and sex murders would be men killing women, with there being far fewer women killing men in this category. The third thought, much more tentative, was that there might be more men killing women in old fashioned, patriarchal societies. I then turn to the Internet, and Bing turns up two substantial articles in Wikipedia (references 1 and 2) and from one of these I get to the United Nations report at references 3a and 3b.
I now know that there is a great deal of murder in Central America, the Caribbean, parts of South America and parts of Southern Africa. While Western Europe has a lot less. The overall murder rate in France is something over one per 100,000 population per year, of which women account for around 40% of the victims, so as a proportion on the high side. With the global figures being something over six and 20% respectively. Nothing on patriarchal.
From which I draw two inferences. First, not enough so far to say whether or not the French women have a point. Second, it is all very complicated. A good deal of care and statistics would be needed to be able to say much more. So before I say any more, I had better have a look at reference 3a, to be found at reference 3b, which looks to involve both care and statistics. It is the source of the snap above.
But will I get around to it? One of a number of worthy but lengthy reports which I have come across in the recent past.
Reference 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homicide_statistics_by_gender.
Reference 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate.
Reference 3a: Global Homicide Book - United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime - 2013.
Reference 3b: http://www.unodc.org/documents/gsh/pdfs/2014_GLOBAL_HOMICIDE_BOOK_web.pdf.
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