Economic abuse can restrict women’s employment opportunities or force them into exploitative jobs with poor conditions and limited opportunities for advancement.
Financial abuse against women does not always involve a man limiting his partner’s access to money, but can also involve him refusing to take financial responsibility and instead exploiting her income.
Rene Moonsamy, director at National Debt Counsellors, says financial abuse can take different forms.
“Financial abuse can work in more than one direction. It’s not always one partner controlling the other’s access to money, but can also arise where one partner deliberately avoids financial responsibility and places an unreasonable financial burden on the other.”
Research into economic abuse against women has documented exactly this type of behaviour, including male partners who become chronically financially dependent on working women or deliberately refuse to meet household financial obligations.
