Workplace Sexual Harassment in the Private Sector in Georgia

The publication was prepared by Caucasus Resource Research Center (CRRC-Georgia) with the involvement of local gender expert, Lika Jalaghania, in the framework of the Women’s Economic Empowerment component of the UN Women project “Good Governance for Gender Equality in Georgia”, which is funded by the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation.

The study aimed at generating evidence to inform policies on preventing and responding to workplace sexual harassment in the private sector. The objectives of the study were as follows:

To obtain estimates of the prevalence and forms of sexual harassment in the private sector.
To examine private sector employees’ awareness of and attitudes towards sexual harassment in the workplace, including its causes, places of occurrence, consequences, risks and protective factors, legislation/policy in place and reporting mechanisms, as well as their views on preventing sexual harassment.
To understand the characteristics of perpetrators of workplace sexual harassment and the impact of workplace sexual harassment on those who experience it.