Studies of both animals and humans have shown that sex hormones somehow affect the stress response, causing females under stress to produce more of the trigger chemicals than do males under the same conditions.
The kinds of interpersonal violence that women are exposed to tend to be in domestic situations, by, unfortunately, parents or other family members, and they tend not to be one-shot deals.
So THAT is the challenge that Shakespeare faces, and it’s also the challenge that you face whenever you write for an audience, whether it’s a novel or a pedantic YouTube comment about the accuracy of our Gallifreyan.