DOES LITERACY RATE DECREASE THE SEXUAL HARASSMENT CASES IN PAKISTAN?

Abstract

Sexual Harassment means any physical, spoken, or non-spoken conduct of a sexual sort that isn't invited by the victim of sexual harassment. Inappropriate behavior incorporates intentional or rehashed spontaneous verbal remarks, indications, or actual contact of a sexual sort, which are unwanted. Survivors of lewd behavior experience embarrassment, loss of self-assurance, outrage, and mental harm. The main objective of this research was to analyze the sexual harassment in Pakistan. For this purpose, the data was analyzed qualitatively and descriptive research was carried out, the concerned information was collected from different previous research reports, research papers, books and reports prepared by some Government authorities and non-Government organizations. The results show that women with more ladylike qualities experience more lewd behavior and chat relationship as compare to women with more manly attributes will encounter lesser sexual harassment. It implies that in social climate of Pakistan where guys are more predominant over female sexual orientation, as power/authority plays more significant job. Guys accept females as sexual objects whether or not female are having cliché ladylike attributes or manly qualities. So it was concluded that All things considered, inappropriate sexual behavior has critical antagonistic mental and physical impacts on working women and it antagonistically influences the work environment and by and large business tasks seen working environment, sexual harassment environment and working women environmental sexual harassment realizations were both critical indicators of observed defense from sexual behavior.