The French government has been urged to crack down on sexual harassment after the publication of a shocking survey involving Parisian women.
A study of 600 women in two suburbs of the French capital asked if any of them had suffered sexual harassment while traveling on public transportation, reports the Local.
One hundred percent of the women replied they had.
The harassment involved “any kind of words or behavior that are intended to create a situation that is intimidating, humiliating, degrading or offensive.”
The government’s health minister Marisol Touraine told French TV the government would act on the report, which she said was of “high quality.”
She said the government would “take action” within weeks.
The report was carried out by the High Council for Equality.
It spoke to women in the Paris suburbs of Seine-Saint-Denis and Essonne.
One 26-year-old woman told the Local that Paris was the worst city she had lived in for sexual harassment.
“The men in Paris take a lot of liberties … it’s like they don’t really care what they say or how it might make someone feel,” she said.
