O assédio sexual não existe ou é silênciado? a invisibilidade do assédio sexual no ambiente universitário

Abstract

Gender violence is a recurring factor in society, which, despite proliferating in different environments, ends up having its discussion confined to only a few instances. The space to discuss violence against women is apriore defined and stereotyped by society, therefore gains as companions the taboo and silence, it is still delicate to talk about violence against women, in the same sense that the aggression is still naturalized, and while he closes his eyes and covers his ears, victims continue to be silenced by their aggressors. Believing that these factors come from a social construction, it was sought through the research to identify what is gender, its implications and how it falls on the woman, and evidence the history of the black woman as a slave and sexual object. This work goes on to identify aggression against women, focusing specifically on sexual harassment within the university environment, not exempt from machismo, higher education institutions have been the stage for the reproduction of sexual harassment and for the silence before the same, this research made use of interviews with victims of sexual harassment in the university environment, in order to discuss the existence and importance of the discussion on the subject within the institutions, as a tool to protect the students, also aiming at the importance of laws and public policies aimed at the confrontation of aggression.