Lack Of Awareness Regarding Sexual Harassment

As a researcher who is a beginner, the experience of conducting this research was thrilling as well as challenging. I had the opportunity to interact with various people and learn from their experiences and how to interact with strangers without making them feel uncomfortable. I also had to face a few difficulties because of the uncooperative behavior of others but following the research ethics I could not react. The best part that I learned in this entire process was to listen and respect the views and opinions of others even though I personally disagreed with them.

Keeping the key findings in view and the objectives of the research as well following is an analysis of the questions.

i. The 5 female respondents were asked how they would describe

Even though they were specifying sexual harassment to some specific actions but still it proved that they disapproved and condemned such vulgar actions.

One respondent was able to include that harassment included unwanted touching and use of force as well, but the degree of uneasiness they were feeling while replying was evident from their body language. They were either constantly holding both their hands tightly or looking here and there to make sure their responses were not being heard by someone else.

Lack of awareness regarding sexual Harassment (SH) was basically observed from their responses and high level of discomfort in discussing this issue as well. This discomfort amongst girls in discussing such issues is because of the social taboos associated with such issues and unawareness. These are social issues which need to be discussed and girls need to be made aware of them and how to deal with them from the very beginning. Only then can they be able to effectively handle and cope with such issues before hand knowledge is

One respondent said:

‘In my opinion the harassers have some psychological issues. They resort to this activity to hide their own insecurities and weaknesses as well as their sexual and mental frustrations or to show their dominancy.”

From these responses it becomes evident that there are various reasons why boys resort to such hideous actions. They can be psychological or social reasons. Many a times lack of attention from parents can lead a person to get involved in particular activities just in order to gain others attention. Many boys as suggested by one respondent indulge in this activity just to make an influence upon their friends or because of peer pressure to prove that they are dominant and