At the Tavern, painted by Johann Michael Neder, 1833, Germanisches Nationalmuseum
Editor’s Note: Obviously, women are not strangers to the phenomenon of sexual harrassment and unwanted sexual touching. Stop Street Harassment is a non-profit site that has produced a report about this common problem and The New York Times has run an article about this subject: She Never Spoke of It to Her Husband. Then She Heard the Trump Tape.
A Report about Street Harassment Statistics
Street harassment is an under-researched topic, but it’s clear from the few studies that exist that it is a significant and prevalent problem.
In 2014, SSH commissioned a 2,000-person national survey in the USA with surveying firm GfK. The survey found that 65% of all women had experienced street harassment. Among all women, 23% had been sexually touched, 20% had been followed, and 9% had been forced to do something sexual. Among men, 25% had been street harassed (a higher percentage of LGBT-identified men than heterosexual men reported this) and their most common form of harassment was homophobic or transphobic slurs (9%). Read more findings.
More studies about the street harassment of women and female-identified individuals:
1 — Forty Academic & Community Studies
2 —- Two Online Studies by Stop Street Harassment
In one of the surveys of 811 women, 99 percent experienced street harassment, including:
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