2.2.8 Employment

Abusive partners often harass their victims at work or engage in other conduct that gets them fired.1  Absences from work due to court appearances and abuse can also lead to problems with employers. Job protection is essential to economic independence.

• 1Bureau of Justice Statistics, Female Victims of Crimes (1991) (abusers harass 74% of employed battered women at work either in person or by phone); Kathryn Showalter, Women’s Employment and Domestic Violence: A Review of the Literature, 31 Aggression and Violent Behavior 37, 40 (2016) (61.4% of women harassed on the phone at work and 39.2% harassed in person at work).