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59 N.Y.U. Ann. Surv. Am. L. 121 (2003-2004)
Working towards Freedom from Abuse: Recognizing a "Public Policy" Exception to Employment-at-Will for Domestic Violence Victims

handle is hein.journals/annam59 and id is 141 raw text is: WORKING TOWARDS FREEDOM FROM ABUSE: RECOGNIZING A PUBLIC POLICY EXCEPTION TO EMPLOYMENT-AT-WILL FOR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE VICTIMS SANDRA S. PARK* I. INTRODUCTION: THE NEED FOR A PUBLIC POLICY EXCEPTION TO EMPLOYMENT-AT-WILL FOR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE VICTIMS A. Overview of the Problem Approximately 1.8 million women each year are assaulted, raped, or stalked by an intimate partner.1 In 1998, about one mil- lion violent crimes, including homicide, rape, sexual assault, as- sault, and robbery, were committed against current or former spouses, boyfriends, or girlfriends.2 Sustained work and economic freedom can be a means to freedom from physical abuse. A study conducted in Chicago found that the majority of women stressed the need for access to and personal control over money and other resources if a woman was to be able to leave an abusive partner.3 One survivor described the importance of work to her sense of self and safety: Work to me is almost like life and death. It is everything. I would be afraid that I wouldn't have an identity, that I would slip back into a person that didn't want anything, that life would not have any value. Every day that I come to work, I'm * Executive Articles Editor, NYU Annual Survey of American Law, 2001-2002. J.D., magna cum laude, NYU School of Law, 2002; A.B., magna cum laude, Harvard University, 1997. I would like to thank Julie Goldscheid for her guidance and feedback. I also express my appreciation for the valuable editorial assistance of the board and staff of the NYU Annual Survey of American Law. 1. See PATRICIA TJADEN & NANcv THOEENES, NAT'L INST. OF JUSTICE & CTRS. FOR DISEASE CONTROL & PREVENTION, EXTENT, NATURE, AND CONSEQUENCES OF INTI- MATE PARTNER VIOLENCE 9 (2000). 2. CALLIE MARIE RENNISON & SARAH WELCHANS, U.S. DEP'T OF JUSTICE, INTI- MATE PARTNER VIOLiNCE 1 (2000). 3. See Susan Lloyd, Domestic Violence and Women's Employment, 3 Nw. U. POL'Y RES. 2, (Spring 1998) (interviewing 276 domestic violence victims), http://www. northwestern.edu/IPR/publications/nupr/nuprvO3n 1/lloyd.html. 121 Imaged with the Permission of N.Y.U. Annual Survey of American Law

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