Action-Oriented Responses to Sexual Harassment in Egypt

Abdelmonem, Angie; Galán, Susana

doi:10.1215/15525864-3728767

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“…There are several platforms where survivors of street harassment can record and map incidences of street harassment online (Fileborn, 2014, 2017b, 2020; Grove, 2015; Pechaud, 2014; Simöes & Silveirinha, 2019). In Egypt, HarassMap and WenDo are the examples of reporting options facilitated through social media and volunteers, providing “street-level action-oriented initiatives” to survivors of street harassment (Abdelmonem & Galán, 2017, p. 155). Similarly, Hollaback!…”

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From “Ghettoization” to a Field of Its Own: A Comprehensive Review of Street Harassment Research

Fileborn

O’Neill

2021

Trauma, Violence, & Abuse

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Street harassment represents one of the most pervasive forms of sexual violence. While it is commonly understood as a gender-based harm, it also intersects with racist, homophobic, transphobic, ableist, and other forms of abuse. Although it is rarely responded to through government policy, research illustrates that street harassment can have profoundly negative impacts of those who experience it. This article provides a comprehensive review of the current “state of the field” of street harassment research. We undertook two extensive searches of the EBSCO Discovery database in 2015 and 2020, followed by the use of reference snowballing and a Google Scholar search in order to triangulate results. Studies included in the sample were published in English, peer-reviewed and centrally focused on street harassment. Dissertations and nongovernmental organization reports were also included due to the small number of studies in this field. One hundred eighty-two sources were included in the final sample. Findings show that publications on this topic have increased substantially across the two reviews. We provide a thematic overview of key research findings to date and argue throughout that current research suffers from conceptual and typological slippage and does not consistently take into account the need for an intersectional analysis. We close with suggestions for future directions in research and practice, given the emergent nature of the field.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

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From “Ghettoization” to a Field of Its Own: A Comprehensive Review of Street Harassment Research

Fileborn

O’Neill

2021

Trauma, Violence, & Abuse

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“…United Nations declared that the sexual harassment percentage in Egypt was about 99%, based on their study on 2332 women from 7 governorates (Cairo, Dakahleya, Ismailia, Alexandria, Gharbia, Qena and Assiut) (Abdelmonem & Galan, 2017; El Deeb, 2010). Although this percentage seems to be huge, a previous study in 2008 in Greater Cairo, including 1010 women, showed that 83% of Egyptian women and girls and about 98 % of foreign women reported being sexually harassed (Abdelmonem & Galan, 2017). Harass Map team in 2014 conducted a study on 300 women in Greater Cairo and found that 95 % of women reported experiencing sexual harassment (Fahmy, Abdelmonem, Hamdy, Badr, & Hassan, 2014).…”

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harassment against female, some facts from Egypt

Fattah

Hamed

Soliman

et al. 2022

The Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences and Applied Toxicolog

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Background: Sexual harassment is the most prevalent form of violence against women and the most abrasive. Women are harassed in their jobs, schools, universities, and even at homes. Methodology: A convenience sampling method was used to recruit 900 Egyptian females (between 15 and 60 years old), after giving expressed oral consent, using a prepared questionnaire that included ten questions about knowledge, type, and response to harassment. Participants were divided into two groups: group A of 500 female patients of non-medical background seeking medical advice in Kasr-Alainy hospital and Group B of 400 medical student females. The participants' epidemiological data were collected including age, marital status, residency, education, and status of work. Results: the study showed that the verbal type of harassment was the commonest (70%), school or street were the most common places of exposure (84%), the perpetrator was not known to the victim (97%). 75.1% of physical violence claims were in the form of simple wounds. Police service against harassment was known only to (62 %), and only (11%) of victims tried to contact police. Conclusion: The safety of women requires a multi-disciplinary preventive strategy, awareness about different types of violence against women is a crucial initial step, improving women's access to resources, and increasing the role of anti-harassment units in police as well as many universities in Egypt.

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“…Sexual harassment behaviors are often regarded by men as flirtations and are ignored in public discourse and by policymakers. Both state officials and society repudiate the existence of sexual harassment as a social issue, considering it a taboo topic whose discussion impairs social image (Abdelmonem & Galan, 2017). Widespread harassment and lack of safety in public spaces has become more prevalent for women in Egypt and such social disadvantage is exacerbated by demands that women cover up, and restrictions on their access to use public spaces, ultimately resulting in the oppression of their basic freedoms.…”

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The multi-actor perspective of engagement on social media

Shawky

Kubacki

Dietrich³

et al. 2021

International Journal of Market Research

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Despite the known benefits offered by social media to create engagement in social marketing programs, scholars have highlighted the need for more evidence-based, practical, and measurable approaches to social media use in social marketing contexts. This netnographic study employed a four-level multi-actor engagement framework originally proposed by Shawky et al. to explore engagement in a single Facebook community. We identified social media measurement tools for assessing connections, interactions, and loyalty of multiple actors which will assist social marketing practitioners’ understanding of different actors’ interactions with the social media content, enabling them to maintain these actors’ levels of engagement, advance their engagement to a higher level, or attract others to expand the community.

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Action-Oriented Responses to Sexual Harassment in Egypt

Cited by 20 publications

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From “Ghettoization” to a Field of Its Own: A Comprehensive Review of Street Harassment Research

From “Ghettoization” to a Field of Its Own: A Comprehensive Review of Street Harassment Research

harassment against female, some facts from Egypt

The multi-actor perspective of engagement on social media

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