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#MeToo: An App to Enhancing Women Safety

2018; Springer Nature; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-3-319-94947-5_55

2194-5357

Javed Anjum Sheikh, Zonia Fayyaz,

Cybercrime and Law Enforcement Studies

Few years back, women harassment was not an issue. Nowadays, women harassment is recognize as a legitimate human rights issue and threat to women’s well-being. The #MeToo campaign launched by actor Alyssa Milano to drew the world’s attention to women harassment, with a hashtag that went viral. Harassment is unwanted actions and comments by strangers. Due to the fear of harassment, women are paying to stay safe as women don’t walk independently as men. Pakistani women were among of them. This research will illustrate the harassment problems faced by working women and will examine the available solutions with the context of Pakistani women. There is no evidence that these apps have the power to decrease incidents, despite what the apps developers’ claim. This research will also examine these apps to find out why women still do not feel safer as the apps claims.