Introduction to Gender and Society Flashcards
This term includes 14 different specific actions, categorized into verbal ___________ _________
Sexual Harassment
term involves a sexual act that someone was forced to do against their will and without their consent.
Sexual Assault
forms of sexual harassment include:
•VERBAL
•NON-VERBAL
•PHYSICAL
is a non-legal term used informally to describe a broad range of behaviors, which may or may not involve harassment.
Sexual misconduct
as the development perspective and process that is participatory and empowering, equitable, sustainable, free from violence, respectful of human rights, supportive of self-determination and actualization of human potentials. It seeks to achieve gender equality as a fundamental value that should be reflected in development choices and contends that women are active agents of development, not just passive recipients of development.
The Magna Carta of Women (Republic Act No. 9710)
An act defining Gender-Based Sexual Harassment in Streets, Public spaces, online, workplaces and educational or training institutions, providing protective measures and prescribing penalties therefore.
SAFE SPACE ACT
Republic Act No. 1131
SAFE SPACE ACT
is a broad term, including many types of unwelcome verbal and physical sexual attention.
Sexual harassment
refers to sexual contact or behavior, often physical, that occurs without the consent of the victim.
Sexual assault
Across their lifetime, 1 in 3 women, around (a) _________, are subjected to physical or sexual violence by an intimate partner or sexual violence from a non-partner.
736 million
This violence starts early: 1 in 4 young women (aged_______ years) who have been in a relationship will have already experienced violence by an intimate partner by the time they reach their mid-twenties.
15-24 years
About (a) ______ of American men—or (b) ________…___ —have experienced an attempted or completed rape in their lifetime.
(a) 3% (b) 1 in 33
