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Abstract
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Goal 5 of the sustainable development goals adopted by the United Nations in 2015 aims to eliminate all forms of discrimination and violence against women in public and private spheres and to undertake reforms to give women equal rights to economic resources and access to ownership of property. Government of India has identified ending violence against women as a key national priority too. Brutal gangrape of a 23-year-old woman in 2012 in the capital of India led to an outcry against public apathy towards endemic sexual assault and harassment against women. A UN women’s study showed that 92% of women surveyed in Delhi had suffered from either sexual, visual or verbal harassment. Pervasive sexual harassment can have debilitating impacts on psychological, economic and social lives of the harassed.Tackling sexual harassment is difficult when there is a lack of reporting by survivors which can perpetuate harassment. Stigma attached to survivors of sexual harassment or assault reduces the likelihood that it gets reported to the police. This creates a lack of knowledge on prevalence of harassment. Fear of retaliation, victim blaming and fear of one’s complaint not being believed in reportedly deters survivors from reporting. Lack of information on sexual harassment incidence and intensity in turn can create public apathy towards it. Moreover lack of information amongst women can create lack of reporting and awareness. This project aims to improve sexual harassment reporting (formal or informal) through peer mobilization and leveraging legal redressal infrastructure in educational institutions.
This project aims to undertake interventions to understand whether
1) awareness and lack of legal knowledge affects reported sexual harassment exposure.
2) Whether information gaps in sexual harassment prevalence affects mobilization against harassment and empathy for survivors.
3) Whether lack of understanding about deeply held stereotypes, and social norms affects mobilization against harassment (and other forms of sexual violence) and empathy for survivors.
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Goal 5 of the sustainable development goals adopted by the United Nations in 2015 aims to eliminate all forms of discrimination and violence against women in public and private spheres and to undertake reforms to give women equal rights to economic resources and access to ownership of property. Government of India has identified ending violence against women as a key national priority too. Brutal gangrape of a 23-year-old woman in 2012 in the capital of India led to an outcry against public apathy towards endemic sexual assault and harassment against women. A UN women’s study showed that 92% of women surveyed in Delhi had suffered from either sexual, visual or verbal harassment. Pervasive sexual harassment can have debilitating impacts on psychological, economic and social lives of the harassed.Tackling sexual harassment is difficult when there is a lack of reporting by survivors which can perpetuate harassment. Stigma attached to survivors of sexual harassment or assault reduces the likelihood that it gets reported to the police. This creates a lack of knowledge on prevalence of harassment. Fear of retaliation, victim blaming and fear of one’s complaint not being believed in reportedly deters survivors from reporting. Lack of information on sexual harassment incidence and intensity in turn can create public apathy towards it. Moreover lack of information amongst women can create lack of reporting and awareness.
This project aims to undertake interventions to understand whether
1) awareness and lack of legal knowledge affects reported sexual harassment exposure.
2) Whether information gaps in sexual harassment prevalence and relation of norms with harassment affects mobilization.
3) Whether lack of understanding about deeply held stereotypes, and social norms affects mobilization against harassment (and other forms of sexual violence) and empathy.
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Last Published
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January 26, 2019 10:04 AM
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February 18, 2019 05:41 PM
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Intervention (Public)
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A Information for detection: Raising awareness and legal knowledge about sexual harassment and its detection.
B Information intervention : Providing information about sexual harassment, prevalence,its impact and and steps to intervene.
C Sensitization: Sensitization about stereotypes, gender and its relation to harassment and violence.
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A Information for detection: Raising awareness and legal knowledge about sexual harassment and its detection.
B Information intervention : Providing information about sexual harassment, prevalence,its impact and and steps to intervene, gender norms and relation with harassment, legal information on sexual harassment.
C Sensitization: Sensitization about stereotypes, gender and its relation to harassment and violence.
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Intervention Start Date
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February 18, 2019
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February 19, 2019
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Intervention End Date
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March 14, 2019
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March 31, 2019
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Experimental Design (Public)
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A.Randomly selected individuals are provided with information on sexual harassment detection. (for women)
B.Students in randomly selected classes are provided information treatment.(for men)
C.Students in second group of randomly selected classes are provided with sensitization training. (for men)
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A.Randomly selected individuals are provided with information on sexual harassment detection.
B.Students in randomly selected classes are provided information on prevalence, legal knpwledge, norms and its relation to harassment
C.Students in second group of randomly selected classes are provided with sensitization training.
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Planned Number of Observations
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For A+B+C
3900 women
3900 men
150 classes
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For A+B+C
7000 students
150 classes
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Sample size (or number of clusters) by treatment arms
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1) 790 women for intervention in A and 790 women in the control group.
2) 37 classes for information intervention B and 38 for control group.
3) 37 classes for sensitization training C and 38 for control group.
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1) 790 students for intervention in A and 790 students in the control group.
2) 37 classes for information intervention B and 38 for control group.
3) 37 classes for sensitization training C and 38 for control group.
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