For some crimes, women do get lighter sentences, but overwhelmingly, men kill their partners in anger (and much more often), and women kill their partners in self-defense, which is why there is sometimes a sentencing discrepancy for the same charges. And women who threaten or kill men in self defense do overwhelmingly get longer sentences - something that is very well-documented.
In addition,
https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/news/report-more-women-serving-extreme-sentences-in-the-united-states
The number of women serving extreme sentences in the United States has increased sharply in the last decade, a September 2021 report by a collaborative of criminal law reform organizations has found.The report, In The Extreme: Women Serving Life Without Parole and Death Sentences in the United States, released September 22 by The Sentencing Project, the National Black Women’s Justice Institute, and the Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide, determined that the number of women serving sentences of life without possibility of parole soared 43% between 2008 and 2020, far outpacing the overall 2% increase in women imprisoned for violent crime during that time. The increase in death-in-prison sentences for women was nearly 1.5 times greater than the 29% increase in life without parole sentences for men in the same time frame.
The report finds that the disproportionate growth of extreme sentencing for women is attributable, at least in part, to “gender-based stigma and bias that negatively affects [women’s] court outcomes.” However, the report says, “[t]heir experience of violence—both as victims and as perpetrators—are distinct from the experiences of men, but women are subjected to a criminal legal system that does not acknowledge these important differences.”
And, despite all this, it's not like I expect you to change your mind, so I'm outie - but maybe somebody else will read this comment and make up their own mind.
