While it is often impossible to engage the police to save the lives of women around us, we are often overwhelmed with misdirected policing which criminalizes women for coping with violence directed at them and for coping with the poverty enforced on them.
The 99 Federal Steps to End Violence Against Women was accepted by the National Action Committee on the Status of Women. For more than twenty years, the National Action Committee on the Status of Women has worked with front line anti-violence organizations within the women's movement to identify and fight the social forces and public policies supporting the violence which continues to damage and destroy the bodies and lives of women and girls.
The relative power of men compared to that of women is profoundly affected by sexist violence against women. Men have, and do use, this violence to get or keep control of women as a display of power. More than the individual exchange is affected; the power of all men over women is increased. Virtually every woman fears male violence at some time.
