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1. Eve teasing and
Adam teasing
amongst college
students
Neha Gupta
P. G Scholar, Deptt. of Human Development, ICG, Jaipur

3. WHAT IS EVE TEASING AND ADAM
TEASING
Eve teasing is harassment or
molestation of women by men
in general. In the same way we
define Adam teasing as the
molestation of men by women.
This popular perception of
harassment posits the
phenomena as a joke where
both men and women are both
teased.

4. Major Characteristics of EVE TEASING
AND ADAM TEASING
•The behavior is unwanted or unwelcome
• The behavior is sexual or related to the sex or the
gender of the person
•The behavior occurs in context of a
relationship where one person has more formal
power than the other or more informal power

5. TYPES OF EVE/ADAM TEASING
EVE/ADAM
TEASING
VERBAL VISUAL PHYSICAL

6. VERBAL AND NON VERBAL
TEASING
•Verbal
•Threats or insults
•offensive or suggestive
comments
•messages with sexual content
•persistent pressure for dates
•offensive jokes or teasing
•whistles or catcalls
•sexually oriented remarks about
a person’s clothing or body
•rumors about an individual’s
sexual activity or preferences
•Nonverbal
•suggestive gestures or looks
–winks, licking lips, etc.
•staring or leering
•displaying posters, photos or
drawings of a sexual nature
•leaving sexually suggestive
notes, magazines, cartoons,
mugs, or pictures
•overlooking, ignoring, or
failing to take action or
report illegal activities or
reported sexual harassment

7. OR IT COULD BE :
•Physical teasing
•cornering, blocking or trapping
•pinching, grabbing or patting
•unsolicited or unwanted
touching of any part of clothing
or body, hugging or kissing
•clothing adjustments, back rubs
•stalking or following
•assault, rape or attempted rape

9. Eve/Adam Teasing done by :-

Individually in order to
"belong" or "impress" the
others,
Group teasing Often motivated
for competition, when group of
men or women embarrass
others with lewd comments or
physical evaluations. Teasers
may act , or groups may gang
up on a particular target.
Groups may sexually evaluate
or derogate the victim--to their
face or behind their back--as a
way to "bond."
BOTH
IndividualGroup
One-of-the-gang is a very common form of teasing amongst
young college going women and men.

10. Many college going women and men have started
taking precautions to ensure their safety
1.
1.Avoid certain public spaces.
2.Avoid going out alone after dark.
3.Avoid going out alone.
4.Avoid wearing certain clothes, which may seem
provocative.
5.Carry items such as pepper spray/ safety pins etc.
6.Have started taking self defense classes and don’t
hesitate to hit.

12. Impact of eve/Adam teasing can be long
lasting
•Eve/Adam teasing may sound obscene and
harmless in its behavior but this act has sometimes
resulted in rape and even death of victims .
The death of a female student, Sarika Shah, in Chennai in 1998,
caused by Eve-teasing, brought some tough laws to counter the
problem in South India. After this case, there has been about half-a-
dozen reports of suicide that have been attributed to pressures
caused by eve teasing. In 2007, an Adam-teasing resulted in the
death of Pearl Gupta, a college student in Delhi. In February 2009,
female students from M.S. University (MSU) Vadodara thrashed
four young men near the family and community sciences faculty,
after they passed lewd comments on a girl student staying in SD
Hall hostel.

13. RA 7877: Anti-Sexual Harassment Act
Republic Act No. 7877, otherwise known as the
Anti-teasing (sexual harassment) Act of 1995,
is enacted primarily to protect and respect the
dignity of workers, employees, and applicants
for employment as well as students in
educational institutions or training centers. This
law, consisting of ten (10) sections, provides
for a clear definition of work, education or
training-related teasing and specifies the acts
constituting teasing. It likewise provides for the
duties and liabilities on person in case of
teasing, and sets penalties for violations of its
provisions. It is to be noted that a victim of
teasing is not barred from filing a separate and
independent action for damages and other relief
aside from filing the charge for teasing.

14. RESULTS
•The result indicated that eve teasing was more prevalent than Adam
teasing i.e. 33% as compared to 22%.
•42% of young women faced verbal teasing, 39% of young women
faced visual teasing, and surprisingly 59% of young women faced
physical teasing.
•20% of young men faced verbal teasing, 17% of young men faced
verbal teasing, and only 6% of young men faced physical teasing.

•46% of young women and men agree that Eve teasing and Adam
teasing is higher outside the institutional area than the roadside, parks,
cinema halls, market places, public transport, etc.

15. •67% of young women started taking precautionary measures to ensure
their 67% of young women started taking precautionary measures to
ensure their safety and only 3% of young men take these precautions
to ensure their safety.
•Only 48% of young men and young women were aware of the
existence of laws against teasing.

16. •The result included that Eve teasing is more
prevalent as compare to Adam teasing and very
few people were aware about the laws regarding
Eve/Adam teasing and most of the young women
and men believed that excess of Eve/Adam teasing
can leave a long lasting impact on to the persons
mind which can leave a permanent psychological
mark and can even cause death of victims.
• Most of the young women and men feel that our
government should take more strict actions and
should keep watch dogs to check the same.

17. •Think you have got it in you to be a Change
maker?
If not YOU,
WHO?
If not NOW,
WHEN?