El acoso sexual callejero y la percepción de las mujeres

Abstract

The research project on "Sexual street harassment and the perception of women" in students of the Faculty of Jurisprudence and Social Sciences, represents a social problem that is based on uncomfortable, offensive and sexual behaviors that can be explicitly and implicitly executed by strangers who are commonly male. These experiences that the students live day by day when transiting in public spaces have caused effects in their personal lives, autonomy and participation in public life. The general objective of the research is to determine the influence of sexual street harassment in the perception of female students of the Faculty of Jurisprudence and Social Sciences, also, three specific objectives were proposed, the first is to know the reactions of female students to situations of sexual street harassment; the second is to describe the various forms of sexual street harassment and finally identify the modification of women's behaviors when they perceive insecurity in public spaces. The research is descriptive and correlational, and its methodology is quantitative, using as an instrument a survey created and validated by experts, which was applied to collect information on the two variables under study "sexual street harassment" and "women's perception". The population that was studied is composed of 246 female students from the careers of Social Communication, Law and Social Work. In the findings of the research it was detected that most of the students surveyed have been harassed several times a year in public spaces by a man or a group of men, are considered macho attitudes that society has normalized, in addition to evidence that these manifestations of ASC have changed the behavior of women should be criminalized by law to reduce this type of violence against women.