This was as interesting story that I found on Domestic Violence in the workplace. The main thought of this story was that there are many reason within domestic violence why women miss work. Through all of this majority of the time supervisors and people of authority are unaware of these situations because maybe women don't really think the situation is really that serious.
The thing that really stuck out to me was that when asked 8% of men said they had been victims of domestic violence in the past 12 months. I never really thought that men would actually be victims of domestic violence because in many instances, the woman is the one that is usually the victim. Many women choose to stay in this environment because they are scared to leave or are threatened on many occasions if they leave. According to the class discussion we had on domestic violence, many woman are economically depended on men and if they leave they will not have anywhere to stay. In many societies, they practice patriarchy in which the woman is supposed to be subordinate to all the men in her life including her son, etc. Then many times the family has turned against the woman because of the many, so majority of the time there is no family support when needed.
This situation not only affects the woman or man as a whole but also her place of work. I say this because all the workers are put at risk if the situation goes further and also puts the woman's life in jeopardy because every time she wakes up or steps out of her domain she will constantly have to watch her back and it will mentally obstruct her everyday life.
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