• The health-related costs of rape, physical assault, stalking and homicide by intimate partners exceed $5.8 billion each year.
• Of this total, nearly $4.1 billion is for victims requiring direct medical and mental health care services.
• Lost productivity and earnings due to intimate partner violence accounts for almost $1.8 billion each year.
• 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.
• 68% of senior executives surveyed agreed that their company’s
financial performance would benefit from addressing the issue of domestic violence among its employees.
• 94% of corporate security directors rank domestic violence as a high security risk.
• 78% of Human Resource Directors identify domestic violence as a
substantial employee problem.
• 56% of corporate leaders are personally aware of specific employees who are affected by domestic violence.
• 60% of senior executives said that domestic violence has a harmful ef-fect on their company’s productivity.
• 85-95% of all domestic violence victims are female.
• More than 500,00 women are stalked by an intimate partner each year.
• 5.3 million women are abused each year.
• 1,232 women are killed each year by an intimate partner.
• Domestic violence is the leading cause of injury to women.
• Women are more likely to be attacked by someone they know rather than by a stranger.
Domestic Violence in the Workplace
• Homicide is the leading cause of death for women in the workplace.
• Of the approximately 1.7 million incidents of workplace violence that occur in the U.S. every year, 18,700 are committed by an intimate partner: a current or former spouse, lover, partner or boyfriend/girlfriend.
• 96% experience problems at work due to abuse
• 74% are harassed while at work by their abuser
• 56% are late to work
• 28% leave work early
• 54% miss entire days of work
