War is the Absence of Women

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4. A Surplus of Men, A Defcit of Peace

The following study demonstrates that violence ensues if there are too many men and too much gender inequality.

https://kar.kent.ac.uk/11430/1/surplus_men_IS_article.pdf

One overlooked wellspring of insecurity, we argue, is
exaggerated gender inequality.

and also

A move toward authoritarianism is much more likely

and

In a way, the very type of government to which a nation can aspire
may be tied to the status of women in society. When that status is very
low, the possibilities for a full and meaningful democracy and for a peaceful
foreign policy are distinctly less. High sex-ratio societies, denoting a very
low status for women, cannot be expected to emulate normal sex-ratio societies
either in terms of their form of government or in terms of their tendency to
ward peacefulness.