Freedom Through Self-Sufficiency: A Qualitative Examination of the Impact of Domestic Violence on the Working Lives of Women in Shelter.

Abstract

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Broken Dreams: Impact of Partner Violence on the Career Development Process for Professional Women

“…Our study findings confirm the insidious impact of partner violence on women's careers. Present study findings also confirmed how work sometimes provided women with an escape from abuse (Wettersten et al 2004). Participants' stories of workplace harassment and abuse underscore the need for employers to develop (a) workplace programs to address partner violence and (b) partner violence workplace policies that help employers identify procedures for responding to employees' experiences of partner violence at home and work, ways in which employers can help victims, and what work accommodations employers are willing to provide victims.…”

“…Several researchers have focused on the impact of partner violence on women's work activities (e.g., Wettersten et al 2004;Tjaden and Thoennes 2000a, b). Our study findings confirm the insidious impact of partner violence on women's careers.…”

“…Researchers in the fields of psychology, vocational counseling, sociology, and public health have focused more on understanding how partners perpetrate violence at women's workplaces and the impact of partner violence on women's work activities (e.g., satisfaction, work attendance, productivity, employment stability, etc.) and financial wellbeing (Banyard et al 2011;Bornstein 2006;Moe and Bell 2004;Tjaden and Thoennes 2000a, b;Wettersten et al 2004). This extant research has helped scholars to capture the extensive impact of partner violence on women's work and economic stability.…”

Battered Women’s Process of Leaving

“…Our findings suggest that battered women need help with identifying financial resources to assist them with implementing their career and educational goals. Similar to our findings, previous research has suggested that many women who had experienced intimate partner violence were uncertain about how to proceed to further their education or career (Brown et al, 2000;Wettersten et al, 2004). Therefore, we echo these research groups' suggestion that battered women could benefit from receiving assistance in how to address their limited financial resources, which serve as a barrier to their educational and career pursuits.…”

The experience of hope for domestic violence support workers.

“…When a woman experiences abuse from her significant other, she incurs damage to her physical and mental health, her ability to work, her relationships with children, friends and family as well as her self-efficacy and fundamental sense of self-worth (Koopmen et al, 2007;NCFV, 2001;Wetterson et al, 2004). She may develop psychological side effects such as low self-esteem, self-degradation, self-abuse, depression, suicidal thoughts, and dissociation among other possible impairments (Chemtob & Carlson, 2004;NCFV, 2001).…”