One of the Most Dangerous Places To Be a Woman

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Published 2024-03-01
Every year, hundreds of women in El Salvador are being murdered just because they’re women. We explore the culture of machismo and gang violence to find out why.

This episode of Woman first aired on VICE TV in 2016.

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All Comments (21)
  • @DollyDomDom
    Hiding her face but showing the baby was pointless. Praying for her safety.
  • I really can't stress this enough. Yall really gotta do a better job hiding these wemen identities. It's crazy to hear what people will do to these wemen and yall put basic filters on them that literally anybody who knows them irl can tell in .2 seconds. Bro yall put that woman's whole ahs child's FACE in this video
  • Her face when that man was describing how he would beat his 15 year old girlfriend.
  • @Mahkhumalo
    That man said it’s fun to harm women?!? “It’s like creativity”?!? Excuse?!?😳
  • @Pudlis16
    That reporter has balls of steel
  • @t_swayyv1914
    omg that lady identifying her loved one tore my heart
  • @jaymele8989
    my grandmother sent my mother off to the states in the 70s due to the extreme violence in El Salvador. And I'm so incredibly grateful she did. My mother received citizenship, graduated from Hs and college. her life would have been so much different had she stayed.
  • @Breal30541
    It's like some men really hate women. Despicable really. Unacceptable in every way. Damn shame. RIP to all the innocent that have passed. Peace be with you.
  • @SPDcru
    I'm suddenly remembering my mom's friend, an El Salvadorean woman who had American kids but she herself was waiting for citizenship. It looked like she might get rejected so she told my mom in confidence that she'd kill herself if she gets denied, so she won't be forced to go back and so her sons wouldn't have to worry about her. Thank god she was granted citizenship
  • @shennaas6922
    Coming from a fairly male dominated country, I always get shocked by how men would behave when no one is watching...
  • Listening to that man talk about beating and almost killing the mother of his child was absolutely horrifying and heartbreaking. I’m shocked at how easily he talked about it. How little he seemed to care. I can’t wrap my head around it 😞💔
  • @hieithefox
    The woman wants to be anonymous but you showed off a lot a blurred effect and not showing the face doesn’t do much also you showed her kid? Why show their face? I know this is a re upload but I haven’t seen it before and this just struck me as weird.
  • @serta5727
    Maybe try hiding this woman's identity better. More blurring
  • @C12341
    I just found out they put women in jail for having miscarriages a LOT in El Salvador, even in some situations where the woman called 911 for help. I read a news story about it and the irony was every woman who went to jail was already a mother and when she went to jail for "unaliving her child" her children were left without a mother to raise them and the families/father would have to scramble for help. For some they were in jail for so long it permanently ruined their relationship with their actual children. If you care about kids, why are you taking their mothers away? This is still going on even under Bukele.
  • @raenico5285
    Wow, the men in that bar. Good lord, it is entrenched in the culture. This is one of those rare cases in my opinion where raising awareness will make a real change
  • @PatriceDMV
    It's irresponsible to put the baby in this video and you barely blurred his mother. WTF?
  • @cat8324
    Femicides and homicides are different - El Salvador still has one of the highest femicide rates in the world. Vice has been airing episodes from this series for weeks now, it's not an attack on El Salvador. Edit: Globally, femicides are overwhelmingly perpetuated by male family members - that includes members of the police force, public servants, and other 'ordinary' men who aren't in gangs. Within the first 5 minutes of the video they state "it's easy to assume these are tragic casualties of gang warfare" and then go on to explain how that's not the case. They later say "femicide in el salvador is not just a phenomenon of gang warfare." I'm tired of people's comments lol.