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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