Survey finds women targeted by online harassment, together with male ‘backlash’ towards #MeToo
Sexism remains at “alarming” levels in France in all areas, according to anWomen are being targeted by new forms of harassment including online violence, verbal abuse on social media and pornography with “barbaric” content, it said.
Among the women aged 18-24 questioned, 22% said they had suffered “psychological control or excessive jealousy” by a partner and 15% had been beaten by their partner or ex-partner. This rose to 20% among women aged 50-64. “From everyday, so-called ‘ordinary’ sexism to its most violent manifestations, there is a continuum of violence, one forming the bedrock of the others,” it read.
Elsewhere in the poll, 93% affirmed that men and women are treated differently in at least one of the aspects of their life: work, public space, school or family; 80% of women asked said they had been less well-treated or felt they had been because of their sex, while 37% of men said the same., said the situation was “depressing but not surprising”.
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