Readers react to the murder of Sarah Everard and the threat of male violence that women face
While I welcome calls for the police to be more active in addressing violence against women, it will have little impact on most women’s lives (Sarah Everard murder: Wayne Couzens given whole-life sentence, 30 September). The tragic murder of Sarah Everard is at one end of a very wide spectrum of men’s behaviour towards women.
At the other end is my son’s GCSE English syllabus, where in two years, not one book by a female author was studied. How will boys learn that girls are their equals when, in an A-level history course, the only woman mentioned was Elizabeth I? When will pupils be taught how women have been held back – socially, morally, legally? Everything children learn in school tells them men have achieved and women haven’t – but not why. The truth is that men are only superior in physical strength and that ultimately it is the possibility, however slight, of it being used that facilitates gender inequality.
Hilary Roberts
Cardiff
