ОСНАЖИВАЊЕ ЖРТАВА ПОРОДИЧНОГ НАСИЉА: МЕРЕ АФИРМАТИВНЕ АКЦИЈЕ У ЗАПОШЉАВАЊУ
EMPOWERMENT OF VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: AFFIRMATIVE ACTION IN EMPLOYMENT

Summary/Abstract: “Domestic violence” is defined as any act of physical, sexual, psychological or economic violence that occurs within a family or a household, as well as between former or current spouses or partners, regardless of whether a perpetrator is sharing or used to share residence with the victim. Domestic violence is not exclusively a phenomenon of our time, nor of contemporary globalization. Almost every society has historically nurtured and perpetuated socially unequal relations between men and women, thus harming gender equality and equity and gender identity. Cases of domestic violence experienced by men are not a myth. Approximately 7 to 9 % of men are abused by “the gentler sex”. Therefore, the principles of gender equality require that we address the victims in terms of gender and sex. However, given that women and girls are at greater risk of violence, the aspect of “women” as victims of domestic violence prevails in practice. In this paper, the author analyzes affirmative action in employment, i.e. positive discrimination as one of the institutional measures for empowering victims of violence, particularly considering the 2015-2016 statistics stating that 9% of women living in domestic violence shelters in Serbia returned to their abusers. The author aims to raise awareness of the fact that domestic violence is the most primitive form of human rights’ violation and that being a victim of domestic violence is not a shame; in fact, it is humiliating to suffer violence. Thus, the author aims to contribute to preventing femicide as a result of domestic violence or, at least, to ensure that no woman suffers violence.

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