[F]inancial hardship can bind women to abusive relationships. As such, the economic backing that ongoing employment supplies can be a critical factor in supporting women to leave abusive relationships. Continued employment can also serve to psychologically bolster victims.
Providing paid family violence leave means we’re not asking victims to choose between foregoing necessary support for the sake of financial security.
By failing to provide family violence leave we risk re-entrenching existing forms of disadvantage and failing to address a potential contributing factor to the persistent gender pay gap in this country.
https://probonoaustralia.com.au/news/2018/03/family-violence-leave-paid/?
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