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Awareness about safety against sexual harassment among School girls of panchkula district

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Title Awareness about safety against sexual harassment among School girls of panchkula district
 
Creator Arya, Saurabh
 
Contributor Kousik, Sushama
 
Subject biological phenomena, Economic systems, Participation, Research methods, Marketing, Area, Self help, Imports, Manpower, Wells
 
Description The present investigation was carried out in one urban and one rural co-educational Senior
Secondary schools of panchkula district of Haryana state. 25 girl students from classes 7th, 8th, 9th and
10th were selected randomly from each school, making a total sample of 200 girls. 50 mothers and 25
teachers from rural and urban areas were also selected as per availability. Well-structured interview
schedules was constructed separately for girls, mothers and teachers for data collection. A set of 21
independent and 3 dependent variables were selected for investigation.
Result revealed that most of respondents had medium mass media exposure and low social
participation, medium leadership qualities and high self confidence. Medium level of anxiety,
depression, loss of behavioural emotional control, emotional ties and life satisfaction was observed ,
while high level of general positive effects was found. Most of students travelled 2 to 5km to school
and majority walked with friends. A large majority of rural (92%) and urban (81%) respondents
admitted about prevalence of sexual harassment. Public transport and road side were the most
harassment prone places, 42 per cent of rural and 15 per cent of urban respondents perceived home as a
potential places of harassment. Strangers were mostly responsible for harassment followed by
driver/servant, neighbor/visitors and relatives and cousins. Regarding harassment in school, 60 per cent
of rural and 52 per cent of urban girls faced harassment in school at any given time and school gate was
the most common place of harassment. Though mothers were aware of safety of girls, they did not
perceive as much threat of unsafely at home as their daughters perceived. The most important cause of
sexual harassment felt by girls was to display sense of power. About one third girls did not tell anybody
about sexual harassment. Regarding safety measures at home, majority of rural and urban girls had
high awareness; however, rural mothers had medium awareness. Similarly in case of safety in school,
social setting and internet safety, rural mothers had low to medium awareness. Overall mothers had
poor awareness regarding some of the symptoms of a harassed child and traits of harasser. Very few
mothers talked about sex and sexuality with their girls. Anxiety and depression were found negatively
and significantly related with feeling of safety. No relationship of most of independent variables was
found with prevalence of sexual harassment. Based on focus group discussion, several factors causing
sexual harassment emerging suggestions at individual girls level, parental level, school level and
societal level have been presented.
 
Date 2016-10-05T09:40:16Z
2016-10-05T09:40:16Z
2014
 
Type Thesis
 
Identifier http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/79944
 
Language en
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher CCSHAU