Homicide is the leading cause of death in women.
Women are twice as likely to know the offender.
Twenty people are murdered at work each week. White males between thirty and forty are the most likely offenders in the workplace. October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and Networking magazine interviewed Linda Fairstein, chief of New York County's Sex Crimes Prosecution Unit for twenty-seven years, to share her unique perspective of this growing problem. Fairstein, also a member of President Clinton's Violence Against Women Advisory Council, was speaking at the Fourth Annual Corporate Conference on Domestic Violence in Philip Morris Corporation's auditorium in midtown Manhattan. Although she acknowledges that it is hard to offer solutions, she and Eleanor Guggenheimer, founder of the New York Women's Agenda on whose board Fairstein sits, did convince the New York City Commissioner of Health to enact assurances that the batterer would be kept away from the victim in the emergency rooms.