Careers, education casualties of domestic violence

Domestic violence victim-survivors can face a lifetime drop in earnings, employment and education. (Diego Fedele/AAP PHOTOS)

Domestic violence must be recognised as a workplace and university issue, with victim-survivors experiencing a lifetime drop in earnings, employment and education.

That's according to a report on the financial damage perpetrators unleash on women victim-survivors, which found a 9.4 per cent employment gap between those who experience economic abuse and those who do not.