REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

Philippines sexual harassment of girls where many teachers ill-equipped to tackle the problem is rife in

schools but unreported and unadressed experiences of sexual harassment still goes largely and continuously.

(Sally S,. 2017) According to Marilyn Stone and Sue Couch (2004) school settings must do something to

stop student peer sexual harassment likewise when that kind of behavior persist, it will create a pertubed

environment that may interfere with the learning of the students and may affect their self-worth.

Adriana (1996) believed that the different expressions of harassment can take place not only in a man-

woman relationship within a state,family,society but also for the self-worth of people experiencing sexual

harassment. To further the discussion through her definition of the term sexual harassment:

“Manifestation of sexual harassment include physical aggression, such as blows of varying

intensity,psychological violence through insults,blackmail,humiliation,economic or emotional threat. In

extreme, but not unknown cases, death is the result.”

The continuous changes of the environment has a great impact to our near future where sexual harassment is

everywhere. Sexual harassment doesn’t only happen inside a house or a workplace but some poeple who

experienced sexual harassment often say they experienced it at school and in different public places. The

same sentiment was voiced out by Fiona Leach and Shashikala Sitaram on Sexual Harassment of

adolescent schoolgirls in South India (2007) They purported the idea that public descussion of sexual

matters, especially relating to children in South Asia is largely taboo. The study revealed that girls were

vulnerable to sexual harassment within the school grounds (mostly by male pupils) and while travelling to

and from school (by older boys and adult men),especially on public transport through data from open-ended

interviews and a participatory workshop in two schools. The said study uncovers different hidden aspect of

schooling of increasing girls educational participation in India which presents a further barrier.

(Education,Citizenship and Social Justice 2(3), 257-277,2007)

Despite now that we are on a neo-millennium age,still, it is a gladdening to see the respondents have

recognized that women must speak up and stand for their rights and that Pakistani women have legal

recourse against harassment through the Protection Against Harassment of Women at Workplace Act,2010.

However ,the knowledge that sexual harassment criminalized is still limited. As a women in Karachi noted,

“We don’t know how to use it or where to report complaints” and even people living there were familiar but
doesn’t know when of how to use the said law.

In October 2015 with 364 women and girls commented about sexual harassment in work places, public

places and educational institutions in seven of the provinces of Afghanistan, Women and Children Legal

Research Foundation conducted the research. 93% of the informants that they interviewed said that they

were harassed in public places and 90% said they had observed sexual harassment in public places. And is

much more than those people who experience sexual harassment in workplaces and educational institutions

which only have 87% in work places and 89% in educational institutions.

In Argentina, 72% of women said that they had recently experience being catcalled. Which nearly two-thirds

(2/3) of them said that the advances made them feel uncomfortable or worse and made them question their

self-worth. (Interamerican Open University,.2014)