Let's make a difference. PLEASE

Dear Reader,

You may not know it, but I am working with the Sub-Committee of the Sexual Harassment at the Workplace Research project with AWARE. After 6 months, we are ready to distribute the survey and I hope you can help participate and spread the word out. This survey is for both men and women. Sexual Harassment is just as much a problem for men as it is for women.

Sexual harassment is a growing concern in the workplace, as of now in Singapore, we have no legal recourse in case sexual harassment happens to any of us. (God forbid) There is currently no research on this topic in Singapore, if this research is successful, most likely we can make a change!

The Singapore government was reviewed by CEDAW (Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women) at the UN earlier this month. Lots of critical stuff was discussed during the actual review

(you can check it out these PDF articles:

Issues and Questions: http://daccessdds.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N07/251/67/PDF/N0725167.pdf?OpenElement

Final comments: http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/cedaw/cedaw39/concludingcomments/Singapore_Advance%20unedited.pdf )

Highlights: The UN CEDAW Commitee challenged the government delegation on its "idea that sexual harassment in the schools was adequately addressed." And added that unless a survey was conducted among students, the true nature of the issue would not be known. The Committee said that this applied to all sectors as well.

In its final comments to the government, the Committee encouraged "steps to enact legislative provisions on sexual harassment at the workplace as well as in educational institutions, including sanctions, civil remedies and compensation for victims".

I would greatly appreciate it if you could take 4-5 minutes of your time to complete this survey,

Disclaimer: Super sorry but participants need to be working in Singapore, no overseas entries please! Might distort the picture

It is available online at:

http://askme.digitalboomerang.com/index.php?sid=14

If you want a soft copy, drop me a comment and I will email it to you. The soft copy can be:
1. emailed to aware at: survey@aware.org.sg
or
2. snail mailed to aware at:
c/o SH Committee, Block 5, Dover Crescent, #01-22, Singapore 130005.

The more people that partake in this survey, the more we can find out whether there is a sexual harassment problem in Singapore. And if we have proof that there is a problem, we can take steps to make our working environments safer.

We deserve and we are entitled to work in non-sexually aggressive environments, environments where we are evaluated for the skills we have, not our gender, not our marital status, not on what we wear and how we look.

There is always power in the collective. Hopefully Singaporeans can get together and notice this sexual harassment issue. It isn't a women's issue. It is a national issue.

I hope that from this research we can push for leglisation on Sexual Harassment on the Workplace, and soon after Sexual Harassment on Campus.

Idealistic I know, but you can't shoot a girl for trying.
Can you help me spread the word?
I truly appreciate your support,
Your resident insomniac,
Stacy