Here’s another study showing just how common street harassment is — this time in Bangladesh.
“Women almost regularly face sexual harassment in public places, mostly on streets, in markets and on public transport, according to a government survey.
About 43 percent of the 12,600 women surveyed recently have said public places are the most common spot where they are sexually harassed.
The survey, jointly done by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics and United Nations Population Fund, covered all the seven divisions of the country. The women were randomly chosen from city, urban and rural areas.
“I hardly know a woman who has not been verbally harassed or groped in the streets,” said Umme Nahar, an official of a private firm in the capital.
She claimed she was first groped at the age of twelve and that she is sexually harassed every day on the streets….
Asked for her comments, Ayesha Khanam, president of Bangladesh Mahila Parishad, said women’s attire was not the issue here. “Women wearing all types of clothing face sexual violence. It cannot be generalised that women wearing a certain kind of clothing face more sexual harassment,” she said.”