Simply by being female in public, girls & women can become the target of unwanted leering, whistles, honks, sexually charged comments, vulgar gestures, masturbation, stalking, groping, rape, and even murder from unknown men. It MUST END!
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- 2008
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- Founded:
- 2008
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- Company Overview:
- Several academic and community-focused studies show that anywhere from 80 to 100 percent of girls and women have experienced sexual harassment from strangers in public places like streets, buses, subways, parks and stores. This behavior is also termed street harassment. Street harassment is a societal problem that impedes women’s equality because it can limit their safety and freedom in public places.
You can share your street harassment stories to raise awareness about this problem and they... (read more) - Mission:
- To raise awareness about the global problem of gender-based harassment of women in public spaces, to provide women with a place to share their stories and find help, to provide strategies for ending the problem.
The street harassment of women MUST END if women are ever going to achieve equality with men. - Products:
- http://www.stopstreetharassment.com
http://streetharassment.wordpress.com/
I'm writing a book called Stop Street Harassment: Making Public Places Safe and Welcoming for Women, which Praeger Publishers will release sometime in 2010 or 2011.