{"id":81973,"date":"2026-02-22T15:30:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T10:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/the-anxieties-just-lift-why-domestic-abuse-refuges-are-turning-to-female-tradespeople\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T15:30:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T10:00:26","slug":"the-anxieties-just-lift-why-domestic-abuse-refuges-are-turning-to-female-tradespeople","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/the-anxieties-just-lift-why-domestic-abuse-refuges-are-turning-to-female-tradespeople\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The anxieties just lift\u2019: why domestic abuse refuges are turning to female tradespeople"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nqenglish-card-frame\">\n<div class=\"nqenglish-img-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/00349c17da8db062b7318e2b70124d3fd5c067eb\/631_0_6000_4800\/master\/6000.jpg?width=1200&#038;height=630&#038;quality=85&#038;auto=format&#038;fit=crop&#038;precrop=40:21,offset-x50,offset-y0&#038;overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&#038;overlay-width=100p&#038;overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&#038;enable=upscale&#038;s=fbf323fcd1108956d71a2cd4d598622e\" alt=\"\u2018The anxieties just lift\u2019: why domestic abuse refuges are turning to female tradespeople\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" style=\"object-fit:cover\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-cat lang-en\">\u090f\u0928 \u0936\u0949\u0930\u094d\u091f\u094d\u0938'<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-headline\">\u2018The anxieties just lift\u2019: why domestic abuse refuges are turning to female tradespeople<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-summary\">With construction overwhelmingly male, Refuge says tradeswomen help survivors of abuse feel saferOne of the main challenges in maintaining the 64 homes for domestic abuse survivors run by Refuge is the reliance on a male-dominated workforce of electricians, plumbers and decorators.\u201cThe presence of men can be distressing and could trigger past traumas for our survivors,\u201d said Lisa Cantwell-Hope, the head of property services at the charity. \u201cMale contractors need an escort to make our survivors feel more comfortable, and we always put a notice out to all our residents saying there will be a male presence in the building today. So it can be challenging and takes up more time.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2026\/feb\/22\/domestic-abuse-refuges-female-tradespeople\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read Full Story<\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"nqenglish-disclaimer\">Technically enhanced content presented under fair use in public-interest journalism.<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>N Shorts \u2018The anxieties just lift\u2019: why domestic abuse refuges are turning to female tradespeople With construction overwhelmingly male, Refuge says tradeswomen help survivors of abuse feel saferOne of the main challenges in maintaining the 64 homes for domestic abuse survivors run by Refuge is the reliance on a male-dominated workforce of electricians, plumbers and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":81974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowl-PACw:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-shorts-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}