Introduction Jamaica is without a sexual harassment policy: there are challenges, health problems and the need for a national policy framework. Gayle et al postulated that in 2004, Jamaica had no sexual harassment policy, and women’s organization have been lobbying for it for some time now. Literature Review Jamaica is without a sexual harassment policy: so it has create a lot of problems there are many challenges, like health problems and the need for a national policy framework so that
2.0 INTRODUCTION This chapter reviews literature on research findings related to the sexual harassment. It explores the different demographic factors that can affect perception of sexual harassment including race, gender, age and marital status. This chapter also investigates the attempts that have been done to prevent the incidents of sexual harassment in the workplaces. In additionally, the definition of sexual harassment varies from country to country and from individual to individual. So far
The term “violence against women” means any act of violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, psychological and sexual harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, that may be either occur in public or private life. [10] Workplace violence in health care facilities is rising in alarm rate and has become a major public problem. Even the health care providers, and hospitals are not exceptions including nurses. [2,3] According
Review of Related Literature The Canadian Human Rights Commission (2013) defined harassment as a form of discrimination that involves any unwanted physical or verbal behavior that humiliates a person. Harassment occurs when someone threatens, intimidates, makes unwanted or undesirable comments or jokes about a persons’ religion, race, age, disability, sex and any other of the grounds of discrimination as well as making unwanted or undesirable physical contact such as touching, patting, pinching
Sexual harassment is a universal truth and visible all around the world, including Pakistan. It cannot be completely eliminated, but suppressed by taking positive measures. Underneath research is an effort to find out its prevalence and awareness amoung the female of University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan. It is based on secondary data collected for M.Sc. thesis. The sample size 204 is adequate to explore the research. The sample female age was ample to drop them in the vulnerable group of sexually
Abstract Objective This article reviews the literature concerning the impact of exposure to domestic violence on the health and development well-being of children and young people. Impact is explored across 4 separate yet inter-related domains exposure and child abuse; impact on parental capacity; impact in child and adolescent development;, with potential outcomes and key messages concerning best practice responses to children's needs highlighted. Method A comprehensive search of identified databases
also known as LGBT or LGBTQ community. LGBTQ community is a group of people who are lesbians, gays, bisexual, transgender, and queer. This group of people is also known as homosexuals. This people experienced harassment, discrimination, and threat of violence because of their sexual orientation. They experienced this things because of homophobia or hatred of homosexuality. LGBT has many problems that they need to face. In some countries, being homosexual is a moral sin. There are many argument
STATEMENT OF PROBLEM Bullying and harassment at workplace is a widespread social stigma which is well recognized in the healthcare sector, both globally and in Pakistan. It can have devastating effects on the victim’s personal life, health, job satisfaction, performance and productivity. Women are the major victims of workplace harassment in Pakistan’s healthcare sector. Fear of reporting and confusion regarding how to get help has further added to the problem. The responsibility to develop and promote
The word harassment comes from French word harassement, which means torment, annoyance, bother, trouble. (www.wikipedia.org) Women are being harassed even when there was no a term for it. Women encounter different types of harassment behaviors when they join the workplace. There is no universal definition of harassment. Some defines the harassment is sexual in nature. While other explains it as offensive workplace situations that are based on their class, sexual orientation, language, gazing, sexually
The recent debates on sexual violence in India have brought to light the deeply entrenched hierarchical ideas about roles in Indian society and underlying social norms. Since the brutal gang-rape and subsequent death of Jyoti Singh Pandey, a 23 year old paramedical student, on 16 Dec 2012 in Delhi, the situation of girl in India is under the eyes of international public attention. In our country itself the problem is evident since many years. Rape is one among the many terrifying dimensions