If a woman hits you and you report it, she will be prosecuted just as easily as a man. However, there is a huge disparity in reporting domestic abuse between men and women, mostly because of male culture that says you're a pussy if you complain about it or don't handle it yourself. So women get away with beating on men until they snap and hit the women, then they report it and the men get prosecuted. It happened to a friend of mine. His girlfriend would get in his face, shove him around, slap him, so finally he snapped and hit her. She called the cops and they pressed charges. It was only because everyone came to his defense -- even her parents said she did that shit -- that they dropped the charges. He got lucky, it doesn't usually turn out that way. But it wasn't just his girlfriend that got him in trouble, it was the fear that male culture instills in men that you shouldn't show vulnerability or seek help. Don't blame them for our stupid rules.