“The number of intentional human-caused injuries just keeps rising. Every year, more and more Americans are hit, kicked, beaten or shoved so badly that the victim misses at least a day of work,” Van Dam also notes.
The burden of this atrocious behavior toward workers isn’t being born equally by all segments of society. Women, who are overrepresented in often low-paid customer service and health care jobs, have it much, much worse.
“Not only are women far more likely to be attacked and injured so badly that they miss work, but almost all the past decade’s increase in hitting, kicking, beating and shoving in the workplace has been targeted at women,” the article reports.
Psychiatric nurses and aides, bus drivers, elementary school teachers and teachers assistants, and nurses and nursing assistants are all among the professions most likely to be hit, kicked, or bitten at work. Almost all of those jobs skew heavily female.
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