The data collected will be used to inform change.
Our mission is that through providing a place for everyone to document their experience of sexual harassment, we can finally bring light to the severity of this issue and have statistics on paper of what is happening on a day to day basis.
The aim is that once there is a regular cadence of reports coming in, or enough for us to derive insight and patterns, the data will be made available to organisations operating in the area of sexual harassment i.e. An Garda Síochána, rape crisis centres, as well as to inform policy and research.
This data, our collective voices, will then go to informing solutions and next steps, as we move towards a society where sexual harassment is eradicated.
Why we need to report Sexual Harassment
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Sexual violence often begins with learned attitudes and beliefs, with the normalisation of sexual harassment i.e. behaviours at the bottom of the pyramid. Sexist attitudes that become normalised and tolerated ultimately reinforce physical expressions of violence, with offenders becoming emboldened and moving up the pyramid.
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To eradicate sexual violence and gender inequality, it is imperative that we address the everyday sexism that is so prevalent in society.
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While we have multiple forms of action combating sexual violence at the top of the pyramid, the normalised harassments at the bottom of the pyramid are not focused on enough. There is a gap in the provision of solutions for this type of harassment.
