The healthcare issue is also a feminist one, in a lot of regards: many women are on the health plan of their spouses. Divorced women are about twice as likely to lack health insurance as married women - a 1998 Ohio Dept. of Health study found only 8.1% of married women were uninsured, as compared to 18.5% of divorced or separated women. 26.2% of never-married women were not insured, compared to 16.9% of widows.
The link between employment and health insurance, and its obvious bias towards the nuclear family model forces many women to remain in abusive and violent marriages, ironically for the sake of their health. Abused women flee with very little money because their controlling spouse or boyfriend has held the purse strings, and are isolated from community or social contacts, therefore lacking opportunities to gain employment. Add in the mental and physical effects of abuse, which contribute to them being less employable.
Women on welfare report shockingly high rates of past domestic violence. The MA Governor's Commission of Domestic Violence conducted a study in 1997 and found that 1/3 of the the participants in the state's Transitional Aid to Families with Dependent Children program had been abused by a current or former partner during the preceding year. and almost 2/3rds had been abused at some point in their lives. Welfare gives women just two months to find employment after receipt of assistance, which often leads to them going back to their abuser.
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The link between employment and health insurance, and its obvious bias towards the nuclear family model forces many women to remain in abusive and violent marriages, ironically for the sake of their health. Abused women flee with very little money because their controlling spouse or boyfriend has held the purse strings, and are isolated from community or social contacts, therefore lacking opportunities to gain employment. Add in the mental and physical effects of abuse, which contribute to them being less employable.
Women on welfare report shockingly high rates of past domestic violence. The MA Governor's Commission of Domestic Violence conducted a study in 1997 and found that 1/3 of the the participants in the state's Transitional Aid to Families with Dependent Children program had been abused by a current or former partner during the preceding year. and almost 2/3rds had been abused at some point in their lives. Welfare gives women just two months to find employment after receipt of assistance, which often leads to them going back to their abuser.