Femicide: The Painful Specter Haunting Women Worldwide

Liberty Gaither
Nov 4 · 5 min read

“femina”: woman
“-cide”: act of killing

United States citizens aren’t very acquainted with the term “femicide”, but one can infer from breaking down the word into prefixes and suffixes that a rough meaning of the term would be this: the act of killing a woman.

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