In recent days, former Vice President Joe Biden s behavior has been called into question after a number of women have spoken out about his handsy, out-of-touch nature.

But in his lengthy rsum, there is one policy that Biden and his supporters tout as a nearly unimpeachable feminist success: the Violence Against Women Act. Biden, who wrote the landmark 1994 bill, calls it his proudest legislative achievement.

From the very beginning, VAWAs goal was to improve how police and prosecutors responded to the insidious problem of domestic violence, moving it out of the realm of private family matter and into the criminal justice system.

And it did, according to Bidens frequent boasts .