Being female explains both why violence occurs and the particular forms that it takes, with violence against women being used as a mechanism "to keep women in their place, to limit opportunities to live, learn, work, and care as full human beings, to hamper their capabilities to organize and claim their rights" .
Ser mujer explica tanto por qué ocurre esta violencia como las formas particulares que toma. La violencia contra las mujeres es entonces usada como un mecanismo para "mantener a las mujeres en su lugar, limitar sus oportunidades de vivir, aprender, trabajar y querer como seres humanos completos, dificultar sus capacidades para organizarse y reclamar sus derechos" .