Understand that this is only my PERSONAL perspective, shaped by 50 plus years of my PERSONAL experiences.
I grew up in the deep south in the USA way out in the middle of nowhere. Domestic violence was prominent in the culture in which I was raised. Thankfully, I was never exposed to it in my own home, but it was an everyday fact of life for many of my friends.
What I saw with my own eyes is that women were much more frequently the perpetrators. I saw men get hit with frying pans, brooms, shoes, and other flying objects. I saw men slapped and punched and kicked in the privates. It's true that when men were the perpetrators, the injuries were almost always worse, but the men got hurt sometimes too. These men and their family members rarely called the police. It was "shameful" not to be "man enough" to "handle your own woman." The men basically just put up with it and the police didn't care at all. But if it was a woman injured, I promise you the man was going to jail right then and there.
Like I said, where I grew up, and in a lot of other places, this is unfortunately baked into the local culture.