Abstract

SANABRIA-MORA, Esteban. Percepciones de los hombres millenial profesionales y no profesionales hacia el acoso callejero de las mujeres en San Pedro, San José, Costa Rica. InterSedes [online]. 2022, vol.23, n.48, pp.115-142. ISSN 2215-2458.  http://dx.doi.org/10.15517/isucr.v23i48.49038.

Street harassment refers to the unwanted comments, gestures, and actions that strangers address to people in public places without the consent of the affected individuals. In Costa Rica, even though anyone regardless of their gender can experience street harassment, this issue has a major incidence on women as shown on studies such as the Encuesta Actualidades conducted by the School of Statistics of UCR in 2015 (Umaña, 2016). This study highlights that 61,7% of all women surveyed indicated having been victims of street harassment while 32.8% of men indicated the same (Umaña, 2016). This research aimed to examine the perceptions of professional and non-professional millennial men towards the street harassment of women in San Pedro, San José, Costa Rica, with the purpose of determining if the academic educational level of this age group stands as a differentiating factor of people who perpetrate street harassment against women. The researcher surveyed fifty-two millennial men and results revealed that the academic educational level is not a determinant factor that differentiates the perpetrators of street harassment as both professional and non-professional men harass women almost evenly, and many of them ignore the definition of street harassment and their types.

Keywords : acoso callejero; género; hombres millennials; violencia; sexismo.

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