According to statistics in recent years about seven women are killed every month in England and Wales, about four women a month in Australia, and about 76 women a month in the United States, at the hand of "their" man.

Most of these murders are committed by partners considerably older than their wives and perhaps of a higher educational or economic level than them (although this is not always the rule).

The profile of the "male" spouse killer is that of the dominant man, who sees the woman as a trophy, wants her subservient and without any form of independence.

Often, when women want to divorce or make some other move of autonomy, they are at greater risk of being subjected to violence from husbands or partners, which can even reach the extreme version of murder. It is difficult for some men to accept or tolerate behaviors (especially when they fall under the hegemonic form of masculinity), which show that the woman has high self-esteem, dynamism, the ability to face life alone, to stand up for herself, to make other choices about her family life, says Mrs. Kogidou, President of the AUTH Gender Equality Committee.

"You dust and I in prison", may be a chant of past decades, but it is neither an excuse, nor a reason, nor an ideological wrapper for the despicable act of taking someone's life.

Institutional tools need to be developed (through education with modern lessons in schools, family support, the legal framework, the social support network, etc.) for protection, but mainly for the formation of education with the aim of creating other standards and forms of masculinity beyond hegemonic.