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#MeToo: An App to Enhancing Women Safety

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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.

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  1. Capital University of Science and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan

    Javed Anjum Sheikh

  2. The University of Lahore, Gujrat Campus, Gujrat, Pakistan

    Zonia Fayyaz

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Sheikh, J.A., Fayyaz, Z. (2019). #MeToo: An App to Enhancing Women Safety. In: Ahram, T., Falcão, C. (eds) Advances in Usability, User Experience and Assistive Technology. AHFE 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 794. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94947-5_55

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