Editing Anne Cools (section)

===Domestic violence===
As a social worker, Cools was one of the pioneers in the protection of women from domestic abuse. In 1974, Cools moved to [[Toronto]] where she founded and served as the executive director for ''Women in Transition Inc.'', one of the first shelters for domestic violence victims in Canada. With a high demand for its services, Cools obtained funding for and opened a second shelter in 1987.  She co-organized Canada's first domestic violence conference, ''Couples in Conflict''.<ref name=Encyclopedia/><ref name=TorontoDV/>

Cools has presented evidence that men and women are equally capable of domestic violence and aggression, which is not a gendered characteristic, but a human pathology of intimacy. In January 2016, in a ''[[Canadaland]]'' audio podcast interview with [[Desmond Cole]], Cools supported and cited the work of the English domestic violence pioneer and expert [[Erin Pizzey]], when she claimed that women are equally violent as men in [[domestic violence]] conflicts.<ref name=TorontoDV/><ref name=Canadaland-DomesticViolence-2016/>