EXPLORING THE PHENOMENON OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT IN CONTEXT OF DRESSING AND NON-VERBAL EMOTIONAL CUES IN PAKISTANI CULTURE

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to discuss more understandable research that shows connections between sexual harassment, non-verbal emotional cues, and dressing. This is particularly crucial when there is a dearth of research that connects the connections and provides a thorough and analytical framework for analyzing the problem. The arguments in this study from a multidisciplinary approach provide fresh perspectives on the problem of sexual harassment in human civilization. Qualitative exploratory research by using focus group discussion and interviews was used to understand sexual harassment in context of dressing and non-verbal emotional cues and how is it misperceived in Pakistani culture. Systematic grounded theory emphasizes the use of data analysis in three phases; archival data from newspaper article and blogs, focus group discussion and interviews and it develops a logical paradigm or pictorial view of theory construction by using the themes and coding from all qualitative data. According to the findings the women are likely to become victims of sexual harassment on the basis their dressing and non-verbal emotional cues. These cues are visually perceived by the harasser, the environment of the victim and the harasser is different so encoding and decoding of the cues being misperceived that ultimately lead towards sexual harassment.