Structural inequality, discrimination and oppression based on gender as a social mechanism that uses patriarchy to subjugate women to men and to the social construct of the «masculine» has, amongst its worst consequences, the murder of women.

Since official data has been available, only in the Spanish state, more women, and their sons and daughters, have been murdered than victims of ETA terrorism. Faced with this of national emergency situation, the Valencian society, led especially by the feminist movements and by the women groups, has questioned the different administrations to reach a State pact against the male violence.