Characteristics and mapping of street sexual harassment in León

Abstract

Gender-based violence in public spaces, also known as street sexual harassment (SSH), is the second area in which
women are most assaulted, preceded by the couple / family environment. The SSH has its own characteristics that differentiate it from other types of gender violence. Therefore, the general objective of the following mixed-approach work is to describe the characteristics of this
phenomenon in the public space in Leon city in Mexico, as well as the construction of a map that allows identifying the points of the city where women have experienced street harassment. The data collection was through a questionnaire with open and closed questions, whose answers were analyzed through a statistical analysis, content analysis, and later georeferenced on the Google My Maps platform. The participants were 15 women who currently live or have lived in Leon. The findings include the most common types of SSH that women have experienced in urban public space, the age at which these events occurred, the socio-environmental conditions of the context, as well as the places within the city, the type of mobility they used when they were harassed, and their repercussions on women.