Gender data

Inquiry-based learning seeks to empower students to ask questions and research the answers.  It pursues critical thinking in meaningful ways. 

The inquiry question is:

How do we know that males and females are not simply different because of biology and evolution?  Are males simply wired to be more aggressive and dominant and violent?


Here are some sources to get you started:

https://ourworldindata.org/homicides

https://contexts.org/blog/quicklit-6-recent-sociological-findings-on-domestic-violence/

https://www.everydaysociologyblog.com/2016/08/bullying-and-doing-gender.html

https://www.thejournal.ie/readme/violence-against-women-1959171-Feb2015/

Neither gender is innately predisposed to violence – social environment is key
The evidence so far available suggests two important conclusions.
First, there is no conclusive evidence that men and women differ in their innate biological or psychological propensity for violence. The fact that men commit the majority of violent acts may instead be understood as arising mainly from the social environment.
Second, the fact that explanations of persistent violent behaviour are to be found to varying degrees in brain damage, psychological abnormality, childhood trauma, group peer pressure, and adverse social environments allows us to go one step further and conclude that persistent violent behaviour is an abnormality that emerges under certain circumstances.
Under the patriarchal circumstances that currently prevail world-wide, this abnormality emerges in men to a much greater degree than in women.

https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Crime/Murders/Per-capita