Working women who earn more than their partners may be in greater danger of violence or abuse at home. Here's why, writes WendyPatrickPhD
and similar outbreaks over the years have claimed countless lives, so has a different type of pandemic: domestic abuse. One big difference, is the reality that intimate partner violence largely flies under the radar. The reality is that although largely underreported, both men and women can be
MacMillan and Gartner found that the impact of a woman’s employment on her level of risk for violence depended on the employment status of her spouse. Specifically, the authors noted that women who were gainfully employed were at lower risk of spousal abuse when their male partners also worked, but they were at substantially increased risk when in a relationship with male partners who were not employed.
Although such research has many other implications for working women, jurisdictional laws, and family
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