El acoso sexual callejero como una manifestacion de violencia a las mujeres de la Universidad Técnica de Ambato

Abstract

Street sexual harassment is manifested through behaviors that make people who suffer it uncomfortable. It is a social problem that affects women more because society has normalized these gestures, comments and actions about their physique or they simply relate it. as a “compliment”. Unlike sexual harassment, street harassment does not necessarily involve a relationship between the harasser and the victim. The present investigation seeks to determine the existence of street sexual harassment as a manifestation of violence against women at the Technical University of Ambato. To carry out the research, a qualitative methodology will be used that will allow us to study this social phenomenon through interviews with women leaders who know more about the topic. Awareness and sensitization campaigns play a very important role within the university community, allowing its decrease and fear on the part of the people who experience it. The objective of these campaigns is to obtain an equal and fair society. On the other hand, by reforming the protocol for prevention and action in cases of harassment, discrimination, violence based on gender and sexual orientation that the University has, it helps to inform about this phenomenon and its respective sanctions. However, thanks to primary and secondary sources, it has been concluded that if street sexual harassment exists inside and outside the educational institution and it can be classified as a manifestation of violence because it affects women's emotional well-being, limiting them to develop within any area of their personal and professional life. The normalization of this phenomenon by society has allowed the necessary measures not to be taken to stop and mitigate this problem that harms women, leaving them traumatized and impeding their social well-being