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Guess a Presidents Gender has little to do with the status of ordinary women in the country. Not totally unsurprising but still troubling.
We can have a Godess, but you little girl are just a $#&*% 
"In 2000, 1,247 women and 440 men were killed by an intimate partner. In recent years, an intimate partner killed approximately 33% of female murder victims and 4% of male murder victims."
http://www.americanbar.org/groups/domestic_violence/resources/statistics.html
"Victimization due to violent assault in general is common in the U.S. among both sexes, with an estimated 1.9 million women and 3.2 million men physically assaulted annually, and domestic violence is a large part of that problem, with 22.1% of women and 7.4% of men having been physically assaulted by a current or former spouse, cohabiting partner, boyfriend, girlfriend or date in their lifetime (the preceding data is according to a 2000 U.S. Department of Justice Report)."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_violence_in_the_United_States
National Impact
• 1 in 4 women report experiencing domestic violence in their lifetimes.
• 2 million injuries and 1,300 deaths are caused each year as a result of domestic violence.
• All cultural, religious, socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds are affected by domestic violence.
http://www.clicktoempower.org/domestic-violence-facts
It's true that domestic violence can happen to anyone at all. And that's important to know. It's not just a poor woman's problem or a foreigner's problem. The rich white woman in the castle can be beaten up, too.
On the other hand, if the intent is to say, "We should not judge other cultures because we have problems too," I will disagree strongly. Domestic violence does not hit all cultures and countries equally.
I would like to link you to an article from 2006 - but I can't because I don't know how to link stuff. Instead I will ask you to search "asra nomani, mahmoud shalash." Nomani is the author of the op-ed piece I would like you to read. And Shalash - he is the imam of my local mosque. He is not an extremist. His granddaughter is my friend; another friend is married to one of his grandsons. He walks in my local park with his niqabi wife. He preaches mainstream Islam. He often preaches about the importance of wifely obedience. I know, because my twelve year old son is taken to Friday prayer and sometimes reports back to me.
The article is about Shalash's promotion of wife-beating.
I was married to a Muslim man in this community. He abused me. And although i was an outsider and not privy to most women's secrets, I can name several other women who were abused in various ways.
But the catch is: according to Islam, what was done to them was not abuse. It was simply the husband exercising the rights Allah has given him. That is what the men think, and that is what the women think, because that is what they are taught to think.
So, imagine what happens when males are told they have every power over their wives, and women are told to be patient and obedient "like the Prophet's wives," and the religion states that men can divorce women at any instant but women can only divorce men under very limited conditions.
You have heard the saying, "Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely", right? In a world where men can do whatever they want, with impunity... plenty of them do. And the obstacles are piled very very high against a woman who tries to get out. It's far harder for a Muslim woman to escape violence (even in America, where theoretically the secular law is on her side) than it is for a typical atheist or mainstream/liberal Christian woman in the west.
My experience - borne out by statistics on DV in places like Pakistan and Afghanistan and the Palestinian territories, and supported by common sense - is that domestic violence is way more common in pockets where the culture condones it, the religion upholds it, the religious leaders promote it, and where women are kept powerless and have no choice but to accept it.
So, yes, let's remember that DV can affect anyone. But let's not fall for the fallacy that the incidence is the same in every culture and subgroup. Let's not be so cowed into political correctness, that we fail to call out monstrous ideologies when we see them. And let's - at least once in a while - remember to celebrate mainstream American culture and law... which, while not perfect, provide more security and justice than what most of the world's women are forced to accept.
The first woman in the world to become president was Isabel Martinez de Peron. She became president of Argentina in 1974 after her husband Juan Peron died. Isabel had been vice president.
A more recent photo.
Violence against women is the scourge of all civilizations.
May Chiara rest in peace.
It doesn't say much for humanity......
BRB vomiting 
Horrible to think that anyone could do such a thing to another human being.
RIP beautiful Chiara
Stop the promotion of violence against women.
Promote peace and equality.
