It doesn't matter. The Western Civilized world does not take crimes, even heinous crimes, commited by women as seriously as they do crimes by men. I'll back up my statements with the following case scenario's, you may recognize a couple.
1.) Mother suffering depression systematically drowns 5 young boys to death one by one over the course of an hour or more. She convicted and eligable for parole after 20 some odd years.
2.) Wife, suffering from abuse, shoots husband while he sat on the couch 5 times with a .38 special.
3.) Wife cut's abusive husbands pecker off. Gets sent to a psyc ward for 6 months to a year.
4.) Mother feels her son's are going to hell, bashes all their heads in with a rock while they sleep. 2 die, 1 will have severe retardation the rest of his life. I believe she will be eligable for parole in around 11 years.
5.) Abused wife, ties husband to bed, spends hours slicing him up with a kitchen knife, takes a break to put their daughter to bed, then continues the torture of him. Including deep gouges to the abdomen, slices to the penis and testicles, etc. Read: torture.
6.) Wife whose husband is cheating on her runs husband over while the daughter of the man was in the car with her. Kills him after repeated strikings. Gets 20 years. Parole in 10.
7.) Mother drives car off bridge to kill two sons so that she can be with her new boyfriend. Unkown sentence.
8.) Wife whose husband is cheating ties him to a bed, sticks a curling iron up his rectum, turns it on and leaves him tied up alone in the house. He was saved a couple of hours later when someone heard his screams. She was charged with aggravated assault.
9.) Teacher has sex with student who is a minor, convicted of it TWICE and ends up pregnant by said minor. Gets a couple years in prison, then gets to maintain contact with victim. It was debated as to if she should register as a sex offender.
10.) Teacher has sex with student who is a minor. Outcome of trial not yet known.
The list goes on and on but they all have one thing in common. The perps "feelings" and why the victims all had it coming (except the pedophiles). None were given max sentences or even median sentences.
Society had better start to take women seriously....that includes in the criminal justice realm. Ask yourself, had men commited the same crimes as above, what would have happened and how would your attitude towards the crime change?