Monday 13 October 2014

Everyday sexism in freshers week: the fightback starts here

The National Union of Students is investigating lad culture at universities.

This article focuses on sexism and and sexism victims. A survey took place over 2000 students. It showed that 37% of female and 12% of male had experienced unwanted groping or inappropriate touching. 36% of women had experienced unwanted sexual comments about their body. Two thirds said they had seen unwanted sexual comments directed at other students.
This survey shows that three fifths of respondent were not aware of any reporting procedures at their university.

My personal opinion on this is that sexism has being on for too long and its good that someone has finally realised the big impact it has on victims. But to be honest, only doing a survey on this problem isn't really enough, people need to know about sexism. Something new that I learnt from this article is that males are actually targeted, I always thought it was only females as they are more fragile 

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