A Social Approach to Young Womens Experience Of Sexual Harassment (verbal -behavior)

Sexual harassment is a global problem that hinders sustainable way of promoting women and their enjoyment of their individual and social rights. Sexual harassment can be given the showing of the female body without any agreement, express or implied, on the condition that they may be declared a sexual nature. In this study, a questionnaire survey was used to collect information. Questionnaires were distributed among 384 girls and young women (15 to 35 years old), living in two district Tehranpars and Tajrish as a multi-stage sampling.Results showed that the women have experienced a kind of sexual harassment such as verbal taunts to say, admire the beautiful, dirty word (of blasphemy) and nuisance calls in the last three months or are aware of its occurrence about them. More women have experienced a kind of behavior sexual harassment in such as ogle Hyzy, the prosecution, touching, shoving deliberately, stopping the car in front of them in the last three months or are aware of its occurrence about them. View of genitals, sexual suggestions and threats of rape cases are less expressed by the study population. Perhaps it is a taboo to discuss about such issues or there is a kind of fear or paranoia among the women to express them.In this qualitative analysis research, most women have said that been touched unwantedly by the men many times and how fear to have relations with men. Sexual harassment is occurred in the workplaces less than the other places. Most women often tolerate sexual harassment through keeping silence and distance in public vehicles and avoiding to refer the judiciary. Also, there is a correlation between sexual harassment and women's dressing and makeup. The relationship between young womens experience of sexual harassment (verbal -behavior) and social factors (underlying factors) such as income, education and occupation of parents and family income was rejected with the lowest distance and there is no correlation between them.