3 out of 5 women experience sexual harassment at least once in their lifetime - a UN Women study
What is sexual harassment? Sexual harassment is an unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature that tends to create a hostile or offensive work environment. The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women or UN Women commissioned a study on the safety perception and prevalence of sexual harassment in two barangays of Quezon City, Barangays Payatas and Bagong Silangan. The study was undertaken by the Social Weather Station (SWS) among 800 respondents in February 2016. The study revealed that three out of five women respondents experienced sexual harassment at least, once, in their lifetime. Most of these women are between the ages of 18-24 years old and majority of the type of sexual harassment received is verbal in nature such as wolf whistling, catcalling or lascivious language. However, 34% of the women respondents experienced the worst forms of sexual harassment such as flash...