Department of Psychology, Jagannath University, Dhaka 1100, Bangladesh.
Discipline of Optometry, School of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban 4001, South Africa.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Dec 20;18(24):13406. doi: 10.3390/ijerph182413406.
Personal safety and fear of sexual harassment may discourage women from participating at work and in public life, limiting their life opportunities. The study proposed to determine personal safety and fear of sexual harassment among female garment workers in Bangladesh. This cross-sectional study was conducted among 201 female garment workers from Dhaka and Chittagong cities. Participants were selected using snowballing sampling techniques with the data collected by using anonymised questionnaires. The Pearson product-moment correlation and analysis of variance were employed using SPSS version 27.0. Results showed that 25% of the participants perceived that they were most likely to be sexually harassed by their manager and 25% never felt safe going to work. Age and the marital status of the participants were significantly associated with personal safety and fear of sexual harassment ( < 0.05). The correlation analysis found a significant positive correlation between personal safety and the fear of sexual harassment [r (201) = 0.85 **, < 0.05], among the participants. A deep commitment from leadership with cooperation at all levels of the organisations is required to address these acts of violence and organisational conditions, rather than a form of unreflective compliance or a 'gender-neutral' approach that fails to recognise individual needs and maintain gender inequality.
个人安全和对性骚扰的恐惧可能会阻碍女性参与工作和公共生活，限制她们的生活机会。本研究旨在确定孟加拉国制衣女工的个人安全和对性骚扰的恐惧。这是一项横断面研究，在达卡和吉大港的 201 名制衣女工中进行。参与者采用雪球抽样技术选择，并使用匿名问卷收集数据。使用 SPSS 版本 27.0 进行 Pearson 积矩相关和方差分析。结果表明，25%的参与者认为他们最有可能受到经理的性骚扰，25%的人从未感到上班安全。参与者的年龄和婚姻状况与个人安全和对性骚扰的恐惧显著相关（<0.05）。相关性分析发现，参与者的个人安全与对性骚扰的恐惧之间存在显著正相关[r（201）=0.85**，<0.05]。领导层需要做出坚定的承诺，并在组织各级进行合作，以解决这些暴力行为和组织条件，而不是采取一种不加思考的合规形式，或采取一种“性别中立”的方法，这种方法未能认识到个人需求并维持性别不平等。
