A few months after Emily Applegate started working for the Washington Redskins in 2014, she settled into a daily routine: She would meet a female co-worker in the bathroom during their lunch breaks, she said, to commiserate and cry about the frequent sexual harassment and verbal abuse they endured.

HURFTUL WORDS are among the root causes of domestic violence, with a survey revealing that some form of abuse exists in one in three families in Thailand.