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| − | '''Street harassment''' is the widespread claim among feminists that women are routinely harassed in public by men. The founder of the site ''stopstreetharassment'' undertook two anonymous online surveys and found results that claim street harassment is very common, with 38% of women participating in these surveys claiming to have been harassed by way of ''honking and whistling'' within the last month. |
+ | '''Street harassment''' is the widespread claim among feminists that women are routinely harassed in public by men. The founder of the site ''stopstreetharassment'' undertook two anonymous online surveys and found results that claim street harassment is very common, with 38% of women participating in these surveys claiming to have been harassed by way of ''honking and whistling'' within the last month.<ref>http://www.stopstreetharassment.org/resources/statistics/sshstudies/<ref> |
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| + | Surveys like this are deeply flawed: |
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* They rely on subjective self-reporting |
* They rely on subjective self-reporting |
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Revision as of 10:54, 14 April 2014
Street harassment is the widespread claim among feminists that women are routinely harassed in public by men. The founder of the site stopstreetharassment undertook two anonymous online surveys and found results that claim street harassment is very common, with 38% of women participating in these surveys claiming to have been harassed by way of honking and whistling within the last month.Cite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag
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