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Woman Harassment

Woman Harassment

Date : 02/08/2014

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Uploaded on : 02/08/2014
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Usually a woman harassment refers to force physical sexual activity, but there are many different types of women,`s harassment including sexual, psychological, and street, workplace harassment which prevails in western society. The word harassment refers to a wide range of offensive behavior which creates a problem or some trouble for a victim who is usually a woman. Although harassment considers as a very serious issue, but this behavior see easily in every part of the world.

1.Sexual Harassment Sexual Harassment refers a unwelcome physical harassment and rape. Other types including touching & staring at woman pinching, hugging, caressing, kissing sexual assault. If some women experienced physical harassment, people blame her she is responsible for this physical attack on her .

2. Psychological Harassment Psychological Harassment referred to as emotional abuse or mental abuse that may result in anxiety, depression, or stress .

There are two types of psychological harassment Verbal Cheap comments on body or clothes. Questions and suggestions about your sex life. Requests and threads for sexual activity. Non-verbal Looking or staring at you continually. Pron emails, texts or chat. Videos clips loaded to websites such as social networking sites. Street Harassment

Street harassment referred to an action or comment between strangers in public places that indecent, unwelcome, threatening for women .Street harassment is most common for teenagers and women in their twenties,Usually teenagers boys do just for fun and time pass almost every 4th woman in world victim of street harassment

Workplace Harassment

Workplace harassment referred to rumors or insulting comments on age race and sex or religious beliefs of women. People try to stand to close touching while working on desktop computer and unfair treatment using power and position. It make someone feels anxious and humiliated or insulted. It affected the work performance and relations in the workplace also suffer may be victim loss her self-esteem and feel stress.

Effects of Sexual Harassment The effects of woman harassment vary from person to person dependent on the period and intensity of the harassing behavior. Thus, women usually can suffer from psychological effects ranging from anxiety, stress, feelings of fear and blaming. Some women stop their education and loss their careers also and cutoff from the world .

How to stop women harassment in society Treat women like human beings, she is not a symbol of sex and beauty only. Media is a source of social change in any society documentaries, video clips interviews help to create awareness how females can save themselves. Strict laws and quick justice help to prevent the women harassment .

Reference

Ilahi, Nadia. "Gendered Contestations: An Analysis of Street Harassment in Cairo and its Implications for Access to Public Spaces." Surfacing 2 (1): 56-69. (May 2009).

Kissling, Elizabeth Arveda. "Street harassment: the language of sexual terrorism." Discourse & Society 2 no. 4 (1991): 451-460. Brownmiller, Susan. "Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape." In Feminism in Our Time: The Essential Writings, World War II to the Present, edited by Mariam Schneir. New York: Vintage Books, 1994.

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