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The term women in refrigerators was coined by Gail Simone in 1999 to describe the plot device, particularly common in superhero comics, of killing or otherwise victimizing female characters in order to advance the dramatic arc of a male character, usually by providing motivation to avenge her death/abuse/maiming/de-powering.
The plot device is named for an incident in the Green Lantern comics where hero Kyle Rayner comes home to find his girlfriend has been gruesomely murdered and left in the refrigerator by a minor villain.
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