"Survey: Women twice as likely as men to face violence at work", 25 November 2018

More than one in ten working women says she has had to deal with violence or the threat of violence at work during the past year, according to the results of a working life survey published on Sunday by SAK, Finland’s largest blue-collar union federation.

The union confederation interviewed just over 1,000 respondents for its working conditions barometer and found that women said they encountered violence or the threat of violence twice as often as their male colleagues...

"The majority of violence comes from customers. SAK women who faced violence included practical nurses, sales personnel and waiters," SAK lawyer Paula Ilveskivi said in a statement on Sunday...

SAK surveyed 1,202 union members between January and March for the survey. The confederation said that it is important to discuss violence on the job on the occasion of the UN’s day for the elimination of violence against women, which is observed on 25 November.