You don’t have to go to Donald Trump’s America to see misogyny

While it is dispiriting to be reminded of the difficulties for women at work and at play, so to speak, it is simply unacceptable to ignore the violent reality faced by many women in their own homes, writes Clodagh Finn

IF the word of 2016 is ‘post-truth’, as the Oxford Dictionary says it is, then the image of the year could well be that unsettling picture of Donald Trump prowling behind his opponent Hillary Clinton during the second presidential debate.

The footage, showing a suited, white businessman pacing, menacingly, to and fro as his female rival tried to carry on regardless, contains within it an awful but sadly recognisable truth.