Policing Minister Kit Malthouse was slammed in the Commons as MPs voted to block misogyny becoming a hate crime.
Mr Malthouse was accused of "ignoring women" as "he can go home without looking over his shoulder" while many women can't.
A senior official told the Mirror it was "quite ironic" the Government were launching a campaign to protect violence against women and girls as MPs blocked a bill to make misogyny a hate crime.
MPs voted 314 to 190 with a majority 124, to remove the Lords amendment which had aimed to make misogyny a hate crime.
The Policing Minister said a communications campaign called “Enough” to encourage bystanders and peers to report such behaviour to the police.
The campaign launch tonight was received with mixed reviews from leading campaigners, charities and activists working to end violence against women and girls, the Mirror understands.
Weeks before MPs voted on the amendments, Home Secretary Priti Patel is understood to have written to MPs demanding they back her bill as too many criminals were "getting off" with light sentences.
Lucy Allan MP for Telford, was the only Conservative MP to vote against scrapping the amendment, to make misogyny a hate crime.
MPs shared compelling accounts of abuse and harassment in the Commons.
Caroline Nokes told MPs: "If we're going to go to the Law Commission's recommendations around misogyny and the complications they've highlighted, we should also be looking at public sexual harassment.
"This feels like a missed opportunity. It absolutely matters. If we're going to start tackling the cultures that underpin male violence to women."
Siobhan Baillie Tory MP for Stroud supported Ms Nokes and added: "We have to recognise the calls for these changes are from young girls experiencing really tough times everywhere."
Labour MP Stella Creasy said police forces had found it helpful to record data on sex or gender acting as a motivating factor for crimes, including on recognising patterns of behaviour.
“Many women will have experienced sexual harassment. They’ll have experienced abuse online, offline in our daily lives to such an extent it infuses what we do.
“The flinch when you come out of a tube station to make sure there’s nobody behind you, carrying your keys in your hand, worrying about what your daughter is wearing, hoping that your son isn’t one of those people who does it.”
Ms Creasy also said: “The problem for the minister is he says he listens to women, he knows women, he understands this area. But if he understands at all he should listen to the suffragettes who told us it was deeds, not words that matter.
"And all we’ve heard tonight is words.
"But if he continues to ignore women, if he continues to say that he understands the challenge, to blame them for not coming forward and report things … he’s right to shake and thrash his head, but he can probably go home without looking over his shoulder. Many of us can’t.”
In the same session, the Government voted against plans to make it easier to prosecute landlords who take sex for rent from vulnerable Brits.
The Mirror revealed the Government would block the amendment passing through which Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper blasted as "sickening"
Shadow Home Office minister Sarah Jones said: “I would urge the House to consider two amendments in this grouping which the Government is tonight rejecting which would make a real difference to women’s lives.”
The controversial Bill was torn apart by peers, including the proposals from the Government designed to combat the protest tactics adopted by groups including Extinction Rebellion and Insulate Britain.
