Survey: 44pct report witnessing teachers making sexually provocative jokes

Women aged between 18 and 30 years old regularly face sexual harassment, with 44 percent of respondents in a recent survey having witnessed a teacher making sexually provocative jokes.

While 45 percent of the respondents claimed they have not witnessed sexually provocative jokes by a teacher, 11 percent were uncertain if they had the experience.

The preliminary survey was launched by the Centre for Governance and Political Studies (Cent-GPS) - a Kuala Lumpur based political science and social behavioural research firm - in collaboration with the All Women’s Action Society (Awam) and ran from Aug 24 to Sept 15.

Some 57 percent of survey respondents also said that they experienced verbal sexual harassment on a regular basis when