SEXUAL HARASSMENT IN SCHOOL

Prepared by: Wan Mohd Fazrin, Nur Atikah, Nordina Athirah

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WHAT IS SEXUAL HARASSMENT?

DEFINITION
Oxford Students Dictionary of English
Harassment is a noun for harass that refers to action to annoy or worry by doing unpleasant things to him or her, especially over a long time

Other sources

Repeated unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature

CATEGORIES OF UNWELCOME

AWAM ( All Womens Against Action society Malaysia)

unwelcome verbal, non-verbal, visual, psychological or physical conduct of a sexual nature including sexual comments, fondling, gestures, jokes, emails, messaging, pornography pictures, coercion and more.

Womens Centre

any behavior that intentionally sexual in nature and is not required, invited or requested . (e.g.: touch, pinch, comments about the appearance of a persons body, whistling, continuous pleasing to go out with or for an intimate relationship, or showing pornographic pictures).

CATEGORIES OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT

Sexual coercion Sexual annoyance

SEXUAL COERCION
DEFINITON
Type of harassment, which has directed in some consequence to the academic of the victim

EXAMPLE
student needs to go out with teacher to get a position in school or want to get good marks

SEXUAL ANOYANCE
DEFINITON A behavior that can humiliate and unwelcome sexually, hostile or intimidating to the victim, but has no benefits to the victim.

EXAMPLE
Behavior that creates an uncomfortable environment, which affects the victims mood to go to school, focusing in class and socialize with friends

TYPES OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT

VERBAL

NON VERBAL

VISUAL

PSYCHOLOGICAL

PYSICAL

VERBAL HARASSMENT
oral form of the harassment which including uncomfortable and offensive teasing, joking, questioning, jesting or making suggestive remarks or sounds, or verbal wordplay.

NON-VERBAL HARASSMENT
A grinning with indecent overtone, sexual activity or desire denoted by hand signal, lips licking or away of eating and persistent flirting.

VISUAL HARASSMENT
A drawing about sex, pornographic photo, multimedia message system (mms) and naked picture of women or men or other sex based writing like messaging or letter.

PHYCOLOGICAL HARASSMENT
Harms a persons psychological well being and includes continues inviting for dates, repeated undesirable physical intimacy or social invitations.

PHYSICAL HARASSMENT
Is an unpleasant action such as touching of an intimate body parts, patting, pinching, stroking, brushing up against the body, hugging, kissing, fondling and sexual assault.

PREVENT THE SEXUAL HARASSMENT

PREVENTS IT!!!

INDIVIDUALS

Immediately object the behavior and make clear to the harasser that you do not like what he or she is doing Keep written record of each incident. Tell this incident to your close friends, teachers that you feel can trust you and help you. Speak to principal about it.

SCHOOL

School counselor also can conduct varieties activity to enlighten students about sexual harassment. Hold a seminar at school. Students learn martial arts. Teachers and prefects can co-operate each other for control the place that rarely passes by students at the school.

PARENTS

Teach their children about what the sexual harassment. Use parental control at home computer to avoid their child surf what are not proper to them. Observe their son from download or watch pornography in internet. Wear a proper attire and not too sexy.

IMPACT DID NOT PREVENT SEXUAL HARASSMENT

 isolate themselves avoid coming school have lower levels of concentration (focus) in class, cannot work together with students, get lower marks in test or exam. Psychological aspect: headache, not enough sleep, weight loss and trauma.

INDIVIDUALS

effect the reputation of the school communities and government itself will criticize the school administration.

SCHOOL

students will also become an object of ridicule to other students who come from the different schools.

PARENTS

killed the expectation towards school as academic institution. They thought they fail to teach their children how to avoid the bitter incidents. Have a character who was afraid to let their children are apart from them. They will control all acts of their children without the children like it or not.

feels fear, suspicion, and trauma (rejection from the community)

Afraid will be know by the public

fear that the harasser will be act more wildly to them

no policy or guidelines to refer s procedures to complain the sexual harassment in their school.

LAW AGAINST SEXUAL HARASSMENT

CODE OF PRACTICES
ABOUT: DEFINITION: sexual harassment as any conduct of sexual nature and unwanted effects as interference whether verbal, non-verbal, visual, psychological, or physical. AIM: provide guidance to the school administration and employers on the establishment of internal mechanisms at the enterprise level to prevent and eradicate sexual harassment in schools and workplaces

prevent and eliminate sexual harassment at school or work and have been launched from 1999.

PENAL CODE
section 509 is for intending to insult the modesty of any women, utters any words, makes any sound, gesture, or exhibit any object shall be punished with imprisonment for a team, which may extend to five years or with fine or both.

Section 354 for molesting, the intruders will be imprisonment for ten years or fine or canning.

376(2) is for raping if the subject convicted, they will be imprisonment for thirty years and canning

DATA COLLECTION

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Ignored it Complaining to school administrators Told 'harasser' to stop Complaining to someone outside the school Went along with it

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Action was taken against the harasser Remediation was provided to the harasser Support was provided to the harasser Charge was found to be true Nothing happened Do not know what happened.

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