Experience of Employment among Battered Women in Taitung

• Main Authors: Ya-Hsuan Wu, 鄔亞軒
• Other Authors: Shu-Chiung Liu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2016
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/5chs34

碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 社會工作學研究所 === 104 === Domestic Violence Prevention Act was enacting and promulgating in February 2015, and it included economic abuse in new act. Research suggests that economic abuse is linked to economic dependency of women, and employment is the important element to address it. Nevertheless, Taitung is unique in geography, society, and economic. If battered women in Taitung want to find jobs, would it influence domestic violence? How the job opportunity and job choice will they face? Research design is primarily based on qualitative method, including in-depth interviews. The study finds that most battered women in Taitung need to work because perpetrator’s income cannot afford life. Some women are even to be the breadwinner and find that they can against violence, but some women still stay in the violence because of the traditional family value. However, because of the local employment structure, debt, lack of employment information, limited local resource and large cost on child care, women’s income also cannot afford life. They usually need social welfare and economic assistance. Most of all, they also need to learn more financial capability to make the economic life steady. According to research findings, there are some implications for battered women, social worker, social service agency and local government. We need to strength battered women’s financial capability, so does social worker. Social worker should discuss economic matter by individual to achieve women’s economic empowerment. Social service agency should assistant social workers to develop and train financial social work. Local government should expand child care resource and advocate for labor standards and labor environment improvement.