Reduce Women Sexual Violence Smartly Through Technology
Master thesis
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In recent years, acts of sexual violence against women are increasing at a terrifying rate (Mahajan, Reddy,
& Rajput, 2016). United Nations says sexual violence includes a host of harmful behaviors directed at
women and girls because of their sex, including wife abuse, sexual assault, dowry-related murder, marital
rape, selective malnourishment of female children, forced prostitution, female genital mutilation, and sexual
abuse of female children (Ellsberg & Heise, 2005). Research conducts and collected data suggest that in
some countries nearly one in four women experience sexual violence (Jewkes, Sen, & Garcia-Moreno,
2002). Sexual violence has a profound impact on physical and mental health. However, research has yet to
fully investigate this sexual violence problem and tried to reduce it smartly using technology (Mahajan et
al., 2016). This project aims to research on existing works for women security, against women harassment
and to develop a smart wristband which can be affordable and effective to protect women from sexual
violence. In order to investigate about reducing sexual violence, this paper asks to develop a smart system
and use qualitative research method. This paper uses data to empirically investigate how to reduce sexual
violence against women. And the investigation also turns out that only giving any smart technical solution
to reduce sexual violence for any developing countries is not enough until the country is providing women
proper access to information technology. Research of this paper shows gender discrimination is playing a
huge role in developing countries like Mozambique, because of that most of the women do not have
access to technologies. So, this project also aims to provide a possible solution for women to have better
access to technology through the data collected in Mozambique while doing fieldwork.
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Master i universell utforming av IKT