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The document summarizes findings from a report on street harassment experiences of women in Rome, Italy. It finds that the vast majority (79%) of Italian women experience their first instance of street harassment before age 17, with over half experiencing groping or fondling in the past year. Street harassment causes strong feelings of anger, fear, anxiety and depression in women and influences their behavior, with over half reporting having changed routes or avoided areas due to harassment. While some bystanders try to help victims, their interventions often make the situation worse or leave victims feeling worse. Women are more likely to discuss harassment with friends than with people in positions of power or authority.
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- 2. BEST FOR You O R G A N I C S C O M P A N Y Definition: Harassment covers a wide range of behaviours of an offensive nature. It is commonly understood as behaviour that demeans, humiliates or embarrasses a person, and it is characteristically identified by its unlikelihood in terms of social and moral reasonableness. In the legal sense, these are behaviours that appear to be disturbing, upsetting or threatening. It evolves from discriminatory grounds, and has an effect of nullifying or impairing a person from benefiting their rights. When this behaviours become repetitive it is defined as bullying. Sexual harassment refers to persistent and unwanted sexual advances even after gently refusing, typically in the workplace, where the consequences are potentially very disadvantageous to the victim if there is a power imbalance between the perpetuator. 2 ItalianWomenStreetHarassment
- 3. BEST FOR You O R G A N I C S C O M P A N Y 3 HarassmentMajorTypes: Electronic Landlord Mobile Online Police Power Psychological Racial Religious Sexual Workplace ItalianWomenStreetHarassment
- 4. BEST FOR You O R G A N I C S C O M P A N Y 4 ItalianWomenStreetHarassment SexualHarasment
- 7. Woman-Ageof First Experienceof Streetharassment ItalianWomenStreetHarassment
- 9. Percentageof Womenwhoreported beingwhistledatinthestreetintheirlife ItalianWomenStreetHarassment Source: Fondation Jean-Jaures Percentageof Womenwhoreported beingwhistledatinthestreetin2018
- 10. BEST FOR You O R G A N I C S C O M P A N Y 10 Women’sStreetHarasmentExperiencebyPercent ItalianWomenStreetHarassment
- 13. Italy–legislationonsexualviolenceandsexualharassment ItalianWomenStreetHarassment Sexual Violence (Violenza Sessuale) Italian legislation places sexual violence among the crimes against personal freedom. Law 66 of 1996 introduced a new notion of sexual violence in article 609 bis of the Penal Code (PC). This article reads: Anyonewhoforcessomeonetoperformorundergosexualactswithviolenceorthreatsorthroughtheabuseof authorityis punishedwithimprisonmentfromfivetotenyears. Thesamepunishmentappliestowhomeverinducessomeonetoperformorundergosexualacts abusinghisorherphysicalorpsychologicalinferiorityatthetimeof theact;ormisleadinghimorherbyassumingafakerole oridentity. Sexual Harassment (Molestia sessuale) Sexual Harassment is not a crime specifically defined in the Criminal Code. Only Art. 26 of the Code of equal opportunities between men and women - Legislative Decree No. 198/2006) defines sexual harassment as: Anyformof unwantedverbal,non-verbalorphysicalconductof asexualnature,withthepurposeoreffectof violatinga person'sdignity,orbycreatinganintimidating,hostile,degrading,humiliatingoroffensiveenvironment.Sexualharassment isaformof discrimination.
- 14. Italy StreetHarassment ReportbyCornelUniversity ItalianWomenStreetHarassment 79%of Italianwomenreporttheirfirstexperiencewithstreetharassmentbeforeage17.Infact,57%reporttheirfirstexperiencebeforeage15.Afull9%reportthat ithappenedbeforetheyturned10. •Nonverbalharassmentarethemostcommonlyexperiencedtypesof harassment,andfewwomenreportnotexperiencingthisbehavioratallduringthepastyear. •Havingapersonexposehim/herself toyouistheleastcommonharassmentexperience,with76%of womenhavingnoexperiencewiththisatall. •Overhalf of Italianwomenhavebeengropedorfondledinthepastyear. •69%havebeenfollowedbyamanorgroupof meninawaythatmadethemfeelunsafeduringthepastyear –13%of Italianwomenhaveexperiencedthisfrighteningbehaviourmorethan5times.
- 15. Italy StreetHarassment ReportbyCornelUniversity ItalianWomenStreetHarassment Streetharassmentof anykindseemstoresultinstrongfeelingsof anger--butfearisprimarilyrootedinfollowing/stalkingandanxietyresultsfromtheactionsof groping,exposureandfollowing/stalking. •Exposure,fondling/groping,andverbalharassmentcausedepressionwhileverbalharassmentcauseslowself esteem. •Acommonrefrainisthatwomensecretlyfindharassmenttobeflattering. •Somewomenreportfeelingnoemotionalreactionstostreetharassment,althoughtheyaretheminority. •Itisimportanttodistinguishbetweentrends(i.e.,streetharassmenthasstrongeffectsonnegativeemotions)andpossibilities/outliers(i.e.,somewomenwillindeedfeel nothingatall,orevenflattered,byit)
- 16. Italy StreetHarassment ReportbyCornelUniversity ItalianWomenStreetHarassment Overhalf of respondentsnotedthattheychangedtheirclothing,tookadifferentrouteortransportation,completelyavoidedanarea,changedthetimetheyleftanevent, oravoidedsocializingbecauseof streetharassment(orthefearof it). •Some(asmallamount)of respondentsevennotesthattheyresignedajoborskippedwork--orevenmoved cities--becauseof harassment. •About26%of respondentsnotedthattheywerelatetoschoolorwork,whichcouldhavemajoreconomiceffectsonbothbusinessperformanceandonpersonal finances. Themajorityof streetharassmentoccurswithoutwitnesseswillingtohelp. –Whenpeopledostoptohelp,itisaslikelytomakevictimsfeelbetterastofeelnothingorworse. –Infact,ingeneral,bystandersoften--regardlessof theirintentionstohelp--makethingsworse. •Womenaremorelikelytotalktofriendsthananyoneelseabouttheirharassmentexperiences. •Womenfeelleastcomfortabletalkingtoindividualswithpowerorstatuspositionsabouttheirexperiences. SocialMovements