There is cross cultural verification that women are more violent than men in domestic settings. When behaviour has cross- cultural verification it means that it is part of human nature rather than a result of cultural conditioning. Females are most often the perpetrators of domestic violence in all cultures that have been studied so far. That leads many professionals to conclude that there is something biological about violent females in family situations. Researchers are now exploring the role of the 'territorial imperative' as a factor in women's violence against men.
Women see the home as their territory.
Like many other species on the planet, we humans will ignore size difference when we experience conflict on our own territory. So, the scientific results that reveal the violence of American women are not unique to our culture, and do not indicate a special pathology among American women. World wide, women are more violent than men in domestic settings. Below is a summary of the most recent and significant studies we could find about domestic violence in Canada. There were two waves of data collection.