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Intra-Urban differentials in Violence and Harassment
Mireille Aziz, Researcher.Social Research Center.The American University in Cairo.
Definition of Sexual Harassment.
Prevalence (Street and School/ University).
Trend and Changes of Harassment
Effect of Harassment on Girls
Definition of Sexual Harassment.
Definition of Sexual Harassment
To study what girls perceive as sexual harassment, they were asked to
classify a set of actions as harassment or flirting.
To what extent girls perceive different actions as harassment
a
b
c
d
e
f
g
h
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
flirting harassment DK
Insulting gestures
Touching
Insulting comments
Nice comments
Misclassified: 10.54 %
Misclassified: 21.14%
Misclassified: 46.78 %
Unable to Define Sexual Harassment
Insulting comment
Insultinggestures
Touching0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
25%
38%
56%
10 - 1415 - 1819 - 2425 - 29
Insulting comment
Insultinggestures
Touching0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
30%
35%
40%
45%
22%
30%
40%
No educ.Some edu.Technical edu.Secondary / intermed.eduUniversity+
Prevalence (Street and School/ University).
Prevalence of Sexual HarassmentSexual harassment is defined in the questionnaire as flirting, sexual insult, touching.
Prevalence: 14%
Prevalence: 65%
Prevalence: 13%
Deprived Non Deprived Total
Age
10 - 14 36.34% 40.91% 38.11%
15 - 18 70.87% 73.91% 72.04%
19 - 24 70.87% 75.07% 72.13%
25 - 29 66.60% 80.29% 70.35%
Total 63.29% 67.54% 64.68%
Prevalence of Sexual Harassment in Street by Sample Attributes
Harassment at School/ University
• 19.26% of university students said they get harassed at the university.
• 9.28% of school students said they get harassed at school.
Harassment Times13.80%
62.71%
15.78%
7.71%
early morning during dayevening night
Trend and Changes of Harassment
Trend and Changes of Harassment
• Half of all girls said that harassment has increased over the last year.
• It is also accompanied by change of behavior.
45%
40%
13%1%
ruderkid harassersmore touchingother
Effect of Harassment on Girls
Effect of Harassment Incidence on Girls
• 71.5% of harassed girls reported attitude change after harassment experience
56%
13%
28%
2%
afraid of streetafraid of transporta-tionnothingother
Fear of Public space
none crowdedness harassment other0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
36%
8%
40%
16%
34%31%
19%16%
streettransport
Reaction of listener
report to police
calmed her
punished her
pissed off clash with harasser
nothing advised by ladies
metro
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
30%
35%
40%
1.1%
5.8%7.9%
10.4%
14.5%
24.2%
36.2%
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