In France, 53 percent of women in 2017 were found to have been victims of sexual harassment. In America, it was 60 percent, and in Sweden, it was 64 percent percent. In 2014, however, it was a different story. In France, only 20 percent reported to have experienced harassment, and in Sweden, it was 4 percent. Other studies with different contexts also show a more shocking reality, with a recent 2018 study conducted on American women showing that 81 percent had experienced some form of sexual harassment in the street during their lifetime. France, too, reported that 100 percent of women were harassed on public transport in 2015. Egypt as well faces the same confusion in statistics. According to a 2013 United Nations study, “virtually all Egyptian women have been victims of sexual harassment,” with a whopping 99.3 percent of the women studied having been sexually harassed. However, president of the National Council for Women (NCW), Maya Morsy, told Egyptian Streets in an interview that rate of sexual harassment in Egypt was only 9.6 percent in 2016. So which is more reliable and accurate? The truth is, no one really knows. No one really knows…
