Some 1.4 million Italian women,
or 9% of the female workforce, have suffered violence or sexual
blackmail at work, ISTAT said Thursday.
Some 1.1 million have been subjected to sexual blackmail to
get a job, keep one or get promotions, the statistics agency
said.
Over 2.8 million women have been victims of violence by
their partners and more than one in three has suffered wounds or
other lesions, a fifth permanently.
The government and peripheral administrations on Thursday
launched a three-year strategic plan to cut violence against
women in the workplace and at home, hailed as a "major step
forward" by Cabinet Secretary Maria Elena Boschi.
She said it was an "important result" two days after the
International day Against Violence Against Women.
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