Many women and girls, no matter where they work, encounter sexual harassment Mahmud Hossain Opu/Dhaka TribuneAll the respondents of the survey said they had faced some sort of sexual harassment at work in the course of the on-going pandemicA majority of women employed in the formal sector have been subjected to some form of sexual harassment at the workplace during the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a recent survey. The results were disclosed at an online meeting, titled “Exploring Sexual Harassment Condition of Working Women in Formal Sector in Covid-19 Situation,” on Saturday. All the respondents said they had faced some sort of sexual harassment at work in the course of the on-going pandemic. Nasima Akhter Jolly, secretary of National Girlchild Advocacy Forum, told Dhaka Tribune that the health workers who had reported being victims of sexual harassment included doctors. Altogether 22.96% said they had faced sexual harassment once, 41.48% said it had been twice or thrice, 25.93% mentioned four to five times, and 8.89% said they had faced sexual harassment six to 10 times during the period of the survey.

Source: Dhaka Tribune August 29, 2020 14:48 UTC