EL ACOSO COMO PARTE DE LA VIOLENCIA DE GÉNERO

Abstract

The cultural models born of patriarchy and machismo continue to be rooted in Mexican society. Discrimination against women is the result of years of male domination. Mexican statistics indicate that almost 40% of men think that women should work in activities specific to their sex and one in three consider it normal men earn more than women. Therefore, the violence as a manifestation of the abuse of power damage the self-esteem, health, integrity, freedom and security of women. Impunity generates unlawful behaviors such as workplace harassment, which can be sexual and to seek to affect human dignity. Behaviors such as unwanted compliments, the morbid looks, suggestive gesture, teasing, jokes or comments with sexual content should be cast because in many cases it is intended that the person accepts invitations to unwanted encounters or that puts her integrity in risk. The internet as a media has developed quickly and today, it has become a means of generating harassment against women without there being a way to prevent it because the law is lagging behind.