https://www.lancs.live/news/lancashire-news/woman-cries-isolation-getting-me-18191097?fbclid=IwAR3obbVInoN1pd6EqojW__KlYpMo51HYukVLyQNfsQgm4acva5II3gHSxis

Remember women receive 63% less sentence for the IDENTICAL crime as a man even when all factors are taken into account (e.g. priors). That is if they go to trial! They are far less likely to be arrested, charged, more likely to be given plea deals and non custodial options. In the UK and many countries, there is serious, government level efforts to close all female prisons down and switch to a community rehabilitation model

Starr also found that females arrested for a crime are also significantly more likely to avoid charges and convictions entirely, and twice as likely to avoid incarceration if convicted.

Other research has found evidence of the same gender gap, though Starr asserts that the disparity is actually larger than previously suspected because other studies haven’t looked at the role of plea bargains and other pre-sentencing steps in the criminal justice system.

https://www.statepress.com/article/2016/10/spopinion-gender-disparity-in-the-criminal-justice-system