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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. . Lack of information on sexual harassment can create public apathy towards it.
This project aims to undertake interventions to understand what is the role of lack of information about different aspects of the issue (incidence, intensity) and whether sensitization can help.
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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.
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. Lack of information on sexual harassment can create public apathy towards it.
This project aims to undertake interventions to understand what is the role of lack of information about different aspects of the issue (incidence, intensity) and whether sensitization about sexual harassment can help create awareness, empathy for the issue along with its impact on relationships with peers.
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Last Published
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October 20, 2019 10:06 AM
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February 16, 2020 04:20 AM
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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, 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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A) Information for detection: Raising awareness and knowledge about sexual harassment .
B) Sensitization and 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 in the form of a workshop with collaborating NGO.
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Intervention End Date
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March 31, 2019
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October 31, 2019
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Primary Outcomes (End Points)
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Attitudes and outcomes related to sexual harassment.
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Attitudes, Awareness and outcomes related to sexual harassment.
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Experimental Design (Public)
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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 knowledge, norms and its relation to harassment
C.Students in second group of randomly selected classes are provided with sensitization training.
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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 knowledge, norms and its relation to harassment
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Planned Number of Clusters
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150 classes
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228 classes
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Planned Number of Observations
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For A+B+C
7000 students
150 classes
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For A+B
7000 students
228 classes
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Sample size (or number of clusters) by treatment arms
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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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1) In 37 classes we randomized 25% of students and in 32 classes we randomized 75% of the them to receive intervention A.
2) 76 classes for information intervention B and 83 for control group.
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Intervention (Hidden)
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Information for detection: This included information on legal infrastructure for reporting, principles for detecting sexual harassment in own environment and was made available in a reader friendly manner.
Sensitization and information intervention: This provided detailed in depth discussion about sexual harassment, including prevalence rates, steps to intervene as a bystander and detection as part of a standard sexual harassment training of the collaborating NGO. This was done in two stages: in the first stage there was an hour long workshop and the second stage was a shorter doubt session for men only.
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