Funding imbalance

TOM KINDLON (Letters, October 17) correctly points out that “domestic violence is a terrible problem, but studies show it is not just women who suffer from it”.

Despite the fact that 29% of women and 26% of men suffer domestic abuse, while 13% of both men and women suffer physical abuse (source: National Crime Council 2005), the Amen group receives less than 1% of the funding available to women’s groups.

This indefensible discrimination against men is another form of gender inequality and creates further divisions between men and women.