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Domestic Violence in the Workplace Statistics
National
Cost of Domestic Violence
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The health-related costs of rape,
physical assault, stalking, and homicide by intimate partners exceed
$5.8 billion each year. |
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Of this total, nearly $4.1 billion is for
victims requiring direct medical and mental health care services. |
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Lost productivity and earnings due to
intimate partner violence accounts for almost $1.8 billion each
year. |
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Intimate
partner violence
victims lose nearly 8.0 million days of paid work each year - the
equivalent of more than 32,000 full-time jobs and nearly 5.6 million
days of household productivity. |
Your Corporate Peers
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68% of senior executives surveyed agreed that their company’s financial
performance would benefit from addressing the issue of domestic violence
among its employees. |
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94% of corporate security directors rank domestic violence as a high
security risk. |
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78% of Human Resource Directors identify domestic violence as a
substantial employee problem. |
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56% of corporate leaders are personally aware of specific employees who
are affected by domestic violence. |
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60% of senior executives said that domestic violence has a harmful
effect on their company’s productivity. |
The Human Factor
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85-95% of all domestic violence victims are female. |
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Over
500,00 women are stalked by an intimate partner each year. |
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5.3
million women are abused each year. |
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women are killed each year by an intimate partner. |
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Domestic violence is the leading cause of injury to women. |
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Women are more likely to be attacked by someone they know rather than by
a stranger. |
Domestic Violence in
the Workplace
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Homicide is the leading cause of death for women in the workplace. |
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Of
the approximately 1.7 million incidents of workplace violence that occur
in the US every year, 18,700 are committed by an intimate partner: a
current or former spouse, lover, partner, or boyfriend/girlfriend. |
Of Battered Workers:
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96% experience problems at work due to abuse
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74% are harassed while at work by their abuser
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56% are late to work
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28% leave work early
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54% miss entire days of work |
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