globally the most common form of violence women experience is from an intimate partner who and because almost onethird of women who have been in an intimate relationship have experienced physical or sexual violence this dramatically influences women and girls capacities to sustain their position in the workforce or indeed their capacity to enter the workforce to begin with women and girls exposure to domestic violence and their access to justice also comprise important components of this analysis and is a theme returned to in section of this report indeed the world bank report cited above found that in per cent of the economies it surveyed there were no laws protecting women and girls from sexual harassment while countries had no laws protecting women and children from domestic violence further countries did not have laws prohibiting sexual harassment in the workplace world bank a specifically these dimensions examine the proportions of women who are able to move into the highest levels in companies