This study aims to understand battered women’s labor experiences while involved in abusive relationships. In-depth interviews were conducted with sixteen battered women who have worked in the labor market as they lived with and have tried to escape from the violence. The Giorgi phenomenology method was adopted for the analyses of battered women’s labor experiences. The results show that battered women’s labor experiences have complicated and ambivalent meanings. Depending on conditions and contexts of battered women’s lives, their labor experiences can both increase and decrease possibilities to leave the violent relationships. Battered women’s labor experiences are situated by a combination of the context of domestic violence, gender role ideology, motherhood ideology, and gendered labor market. This study is worth extending discussions on battered women from their abused experiences to their labor experiences, one of the issues on battered women which is largely ignored. Furthermore, this study suggests that social policies and services should more fully understand the nature of battered women’s labor experiences as well as support battered women’s ‘safe’ work.
This study aims to understand battered women’s labor experiences while involved in abusive relationships. In-depth interviews were conducted with sixteen battered women who have worked in the labor market as they lived with and have tried to escape from the violence. The Giorgi phenomenology method was adopted for the analyses of battered women’s labor experiences. The results show that battered women’s labor experiences have complicated and ambivalent meanings. Depending on conditions and contexts of battered women’s lives, their labor experiences can both increase and decrease possibilities to leave the violent relationships. Battered women’s labor experiences are situated by a combination of the context of domestic violence, gender role ideology, motherhood ideology, and gendered labor market. This study is worth extending discussions on battered women from their abused experiences to their labor experiences, one of the issues on battered women which is largely ignored. Furthermore, this study suggests that social policies and services should more fully understand the nature of battered women’s labor experiences as well as support battered women’s ‘safe’ work.
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