scholarly journals Iranian Nurses’ Experiences with Sexual Harassment in Workplace: a Qualitative Study

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maryam Zeighami ◽  
Parvin Mangolian Shahrbabaki ◽  
Mahlagha Dehghan
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Harassment ◽  
Qualitative Study

scholarly journals Sexual and reproductive health of Syrian refugee adolescent girls: a qualitative study using focus group discussions in an urban setting in Lebanon

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rayan Korri ◽  
Sabine Hess ◽  
Guenter Froeschl ◽  
Olena Ivanova
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Reproductive Health ◽  
Sexual Harassment ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Adolescent Girls ◽  
Sexual And Reproductive Health ◽  
Urban Setting ◽  
Focus Group Discussions ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
To Receive

Abstract Background The war in Syria caused the forced displacement of millions of Syrians to neighboring countries. Lebanon is the host country with the largest overall number of Syrian refugees per capita. Adolescent refugee girls experience a unique level of vulnerability during human emergencies and are at increased risk of suffering from poor sexual and reproductive health (SRH) outcomes. We conducted an exploratory qualitative study to learn about the SRH perceptions and experiences of refugee adolescent girls living in Bourj Hammoud, an urban setting in Lebanon. Methods We employed a qualitative design with eight focus group discussions (FGDs) conducted with 40 Syrian Arab and Syrian Kurdish adolescent girls between January and March 2020. Every FGD consisted of five participants aged 13 to 17 years. A semi-structured guide was used covering multiple themes: menstruation, puberty, SRH awareness, and sexual harassment. FGDs were transcribed and analyzed using thematic analysis. Findings The participants discussed adolescent girls’ health and named six elements of good health, such as healthy activities and self-protection. The majority of the FGD participants reported a lack of awareness about menstruation when they experienced it for the first time and the social stigma associated with menstruation. When defining puberty, they indicated its social link to a girl’s readiness for marriage and her need to become cautious about sexual harassment. Most FGD participants had very poor knowledge of the female reproductive system. Mothers were the most approached persons to receive information on SRH issues; however, the girls indicated a wish to receive advice from specialists in a comfortable and private atmosphere. All the girls reported that either they themselves, or an acquaintance, had experienced some type of sexual harassment. The girls rarely reported those incidents due to fear of being blamed or subjected to mobility restrictions, or forced to drop out of school. Conclusions The findings show the refugee girls need for satisfactory knowledge on SRH issues and interventions to prevent sexual and gender-based violence that take into consideration the complexity of urban settings.

Coping with sexual harassment: the experience of young working women in Italy

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-40
Author(s):  
Lucia Beltramini ◽  
Federica Bastiani ◽  
Mariachiara Feresin ◽  
Patrizia Romito
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Harassment ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
University Students ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Working Women ◽  
Multiple Forms ◽  
Dress Code ◽  
Women In The Workplace ◽  
Formal Complaint ◽  
Italian Women

The aims of this qualitative study were to describe sexual harassment (SH) as experienced by young Italian women in the workplace and to analyse their reactions and forms of resistance. A sample of 20 university students who mostly held casual jobs was recruited at one university and interviewed in 2017‐18; the transcriptions were analysed using a thematic method.Respondents experienced multiple forms of SH, from sexual comments and requests to physical contacts, carried out by male employers, co-workers and customers. Often SH had a pronounced pornographic nature, and occasionally women were treated as ‘prostitutes’; dress-code implied ‘dressing sexily’, and becomes a form of SH.All women evaluated these behaviours as inappropriate, but no one considered making a formal complaint. They reported confusion, attempts to minimise, going along with a smile, asking the help of colleagues, and using the boyfriend as a protector. Few took direct actions such as confronting the harassers, retaliating or complaining to the employer. Notwithstanding the hostility and humiliation experienced, the young women interviewed retained a strong sense of their dignity as workers, which can count as another form of resistance to a system that consistently tries to objectify them and disqualify them as workers.

scholarly journals Perception and Experiences of Sexual Harassment among Women Working in Hospitality Workplaces of Bahir Dar city, Northwest Ethiopia: A qualitative study

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mulugeta Dile Worke ◽  
Zewdie Birhanu Koricha ◽  
Gurmesa Tura Debelew
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Sexual Harassment ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Bahir Dar ◽  
Focus Group Discussions ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Key Informants ◽  
Women Employees ◽  
Key Informant ◽  
Depth Interviews

Abstract Background: Workplace sexual harassment is a public health problem that depends on gender, context, and perceivers ideology. Though studies documented the prevalence and consequences worldwide, the perception, experience, risk, and effects on victims are still at an earlier stage and not well understood in low and middle-income countries, particularly Ethiopia. The issue is worsened among women employees in the hospitality workplace that comprises hotels, bars, restaurants, fast-food establishments, and cafeterias. Hence, this study aimed to explore workplace sexual harassment perception and experience among women in these workplaces.Methods: An exploratory qualitative study was conducted from January 1 to August 30, 2019. Data were collected from women employees, managers, cashiers, and customers from several hospitality workplaces in the Bahir Dar City. The data were collected through focus group discussions, in-depth interviews, and key-informant interviews. Women who experienced sexual harassment were selected using the snowball method, and the key informants were recruited purposefully until the data theoretically saturated. Key informants who were supposed to give adequate information to study objectives were selected. The selection process was based on their responsibility concerning women working in hospitality workplaces. Data were analyzed via the thematic analysis approach using the ATLAS ti version 8.4.24 software package. Results: In this study, six focus group discussions, ten in-depth interviews, and thirteen key informant interviews were conducted. The majority of the participants perceived that sexual harassment is pressuring, threatening, touching, abducting for sexual advances; and experienced verbal, physical, and non-verbal forms. Similarly, the perceived risk factors were organization related, customer-related, victim-related; and the consequences were work-related, health-related, finance-related, and family undermining.Conclusions: Workplace sexual harassment in hospitality workplaces was poorly understood but widely experienced by women. It was also caused by multiple factors and affected both organizational and individual-level factors. Awareness creation campaigns, pre-service education, and in-service training, prevention, and rehabilitation are needed. Likewise, organizational policies and strategies should have to be developed and implemented.

scholarly journals Perception, Experiences, Risks, and Effects of Sexual Harassment Among Women Working in Hospitality Workplaces of Bahir Dar City, Northwest Ethiopia: A Qualitative Study

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mulugeta Dile Worke ◽  
Gurmesa Tura Debelew ◽  
Zewdie Birhanu Koricha
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Sexual Harassment ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Perceived Risk ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Selection Process ◽  
Public Health Problem ◽  
Northwest Ethiopia ◽  
Key Informants ◽  
Women Employees

Abstract Background: Sexual harassment is a public health problem that depends on gender, context, and perceivers ideology. Though it grasped attention worldwide, the perception, experience, risk, and effects of sexual harassment on victims are still uncertain. Mainly, in hospitality workplaces, women employees are disproportionately victims of sexual harassment. However, the issue is at an early stage in low and middle-income countries and Ethiopia in particular. Thus, this study was aimed to explore the perception, experience, perceived risks, and effects of sexual harassment against women working in the hospitality workplaces.Methods: We conducted an exploratory qualitative study from January 1 to August 30, 2019. Data were collected from women employees, managers, cashiers, and customers. We applied a semi-structured focus group and in-depth interview discussion guides. Women employees were selected using the snowball method, and we recruited the key informants purposefully until the data theoretically saturated. Key informants who were supposed to give adequate information to study objectives were selected. The selection process of the key informants was based on their responsibility concerning women working in hospitality workplaces. Data were analyzed via the thematic analysis approach with the help of ATLAS ti version 8.4.24 software package. Results: Forty-five women, five managers, four cashiers, and four customers were included in the study. Perceptions, experiences, perceived risk factors, and consequences of workplace sexual harassment were identified. The majority of the participants lack awareness about workplace sexual harassment. The experiences were verbal, physical, visual, and gender-related forms of sexual harassment. The perceived risk factors of sexual harassment were organization related, customer-related, and victim-related. The consequences were work-related, health-related, and financial and family undermining.Conclusions: Sexual harassment is poorly understood but widely experienced by women working in hospitality workplaces. It was also caused by multiple factors and affected both organizations and individuals. Awareness creation campaigns, pre-service education, and in-service training, prevention, and rehabilitation of the victims are needed. Likewise, organizational policies and strategies should have to be developed and implemented.

scholarly journals Telaah Historis Fenomena Generasi Elegan di Indonesia

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 622-633
Author(s):  
Zaitur Rahem .
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Harassment ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Sexual Misconduct ◽  
Public Trust ◽  
Science Method ◽  
Snowball Sampling ◽  
Ethnographic Approach ◽  
Engineering Data ◽  
Technology Products ◽  
Data Tracking

Character number generation in the Czech nation is constantly highlighted many circles. Facts moral degradation is characterized by the proliferation of sexual misconduct that occurred. Both in the corridors of sexual harassment, the behavior of social disharmony, krimininality and procedures of everyday speech. The waning charisma number of figures is also a reflection of the collapse of the building bagia elegance in this auspicious land. public trust in the leadership also declined. Very fast. This reality has become a national concern, because it is considered to create a rift here and there. Crystallization of these concerns is feared will impact even further. Namely, these people will be losing their identity as a civilized nation. The focus of the study in this paper-related symptoms network perilakumanusia in Sumenep amid great fanfare praduk progress of technology and science. Method is a qualitative study, with ethnographic approach. Engineering data tracking by throwing a question and there (snowball sampling). From the study conducted found that the character of some people experience significant changes. The reason, because they trap technology products, relationships, and sociological issues cornucopia is often not filtered out

scholarly journals Unsolicited Sexts and Unwanted Requests for Sexts: Reflecting on the Online Sexual Harassment of Youth

2021 ◽  
pp. 0044118X2110582
Author(s):  
Faye Mishna ◽  
Elizabeth Milne ◽  
Charlene Cook ◽  
Andrea Slane ◽  
Jessica Ringrose
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Sexual Harassment ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Mental Health Practitioners ◽  
Urban Center ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Health Practitioners ◽  
Potential Impact

The purpose of this qualitative study was to obtain youth perspectives on consensual and non-consensual sexting. We began this study on young people’s (12–19) sexting practices in a large urban center. Before the study was put on pause due to COVID-19 physical distancing measures, we conducted 12 focus groups with 62 participants (47 girls, 15 boys). A key finding was that many girls had received unsolicited sexts (e.g., “dick pics”) or unwanted requests for sexts. Analysis revealed four interconnected themes: (1) unsolicited sexts; (2) unwanted requests for sexts; (3) complexity associated with saying “no”; and (4) general lack of adult support. Using our findings from before COVID-19, we discuss the potential impact of COVID-19 on teens’ sexting experiences and outline the ways in which social workers and other mental health practitioners can support adolescents and their parents in navigating this new context of sexting during and beyond the global pandemic.

Porn, pride and pessimism: experiences of women working in professional construction roles

2007 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 299-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacqueline H. Watts
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Harassment ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Professional Roles ◽  
Construction Site ◽  
Negative Experiences ◽  
Dark Ages ◽  
Experiences Of Women

This qualitative study contributes to knowledge about the strategies women use to establish their presence in professional roles in the highly gendered construction sector.The article focuses on construction site culture that is hierarchical and 'laddish' with sexual harassment an entrenched feature of life on site.Women find this threatening but are unable to challenge it, because being part of the 'building team' requires their silence. These negative experiences contrast with the pride expressed in their socially useful work bringing both aesthetic and technical satisfaction. Modernization of the industry that one participant framed as 'dragging it out of the dark ages' was seen as a priority.The two most pressing issues are the long-hours culture and the conflict-ridden nature of the sector. A feminist interpretive lens is used to draw out the continuing problems women face in the industry and concludes that the prospects for change to cultural practices remain bleak.

A qualitative study of sexual harassment of female doctors by patients

1997 ◽  
Vol 45 (5) ◽  
pp. 669-676 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret Schneider ◽  
Susan P. Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Harassment ◽  
Qualitative Study
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