Abstract
This descriptive study on Sexual harassment (SH) in media agencies in The Gambia investigated the prevalence of the practice, the situations that drive the practice and individual as well as organizational mode of response to the issue. The research design adopted was survey using both quantitative and qualitative methods. Survey questionnaires were administered on 109 respondents drawn from 24 media organizations and freelancing journalists. The organisations were purposively selected while respondents within each organisation were randomly sampled. To collect qualitative data, one male and female Focus Group Discussion (FGD) respectively were conducted while 5 Key Informant Interviews (KII’s) were held with veteran journalists. Online platforms were used for the collection of the qualitative data. Findings show that sexual harassment (SH) is prevalent among the study population. 22% of the respondents have heard rumours of SH in the workplace, 40% of this have heard it more than twice, 23.9% are aware of someone being sexually harassed and 13.7% have had personal experience of sexual harassment.
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