Only for 39% of Italians is it violence to ask a partner to give up a promotion

Only 39% of Italians definitively recognize asking a partner to give up a promotion as violence: 44% are women compared to 34% of men.

It is not an isolated case: it is precisely when it affects work that economic violence struggles most to be recognized. This is what emerges from the new survey by the D Observatory, carried out with Swg and presented today at the Chamber of Deputies on the occasion of the launch of the third volume of 'From silence to action', the series launched by Valore D in 2024. The volume, dedicated to economic violence, was born this year from the collaboration with the Global Thinking Foundation. The goal is to help companies recognize the signs of economic violence and support employees who suffer it.

At the conference entitled "From silence to action.

Recognizing and combating economic violence: the role of businesses" was attended, among others, by the president of the Parliamentary Feminicide Commission Martina Semenzato and the Minister for Family, Equal Opportunities and Birthplace Eugenia Roccella.

Economic violence is one of the least visible forms of gender violence: it leaves no marks and rarely leads to a complaint. Work, according to Valore D, is the area in which economic violence is least recognised. All work-related behaviors remain below the 40% threshold. 36% for discouraging the partner from acquiring new skills; one in three due to pressure on their partner to reduce working hours to take care of the family. Controlling expenses also remains a gray area. Uncertainties do not only concern work, but also the most well-known forms of control. Almost one in two Italians (47%) certainly does not consider the obligation to justify every expense or to show the receipts to the partner as violence.