A study on students’ perception of gender-equality and awareness, attitudes toward sexual-harassment for one junior high school in Taichung county.

[[abstract]]The purposes of this study were to explore students’ perception of gender-equality and awareness, attitudes of sexual-harassment for one junior high school in Taichung county, and to investigate the relationships among these three variables. The research population of the study was junior high students in Longjing township in Taichung county in 2009.The samples consisted of 630 students who were selected by stratified random sampling method. The data of 546 students was collected by self-administered questionnaire. The return rate was 86.6%. The results were as follows: (1) Students had high-level perception of gender-equity, awareness of sexual harassment and attitude of sexual harassment. (2) There were significantly differences of perception of gender-equity in genders, grades, ranking of brothers or sisters, and parents attitudes of discipline, respectively. (3) There were significantly differences of awareness toward sexual harassment in genders, family conditions, and the gender of teachers toward discipline, respectively. (4) There were significantly differences of attitude toward sexual harassment in grades and parents attitudes toward discipline, respectively. (5) There were significantly positive correlations among perception of gender-equity, awareness, and attitude of sexual harassment . (6) There were significantly positive correlation between awareness and attitude of sexual harassment . Keywords: awareness of sexual harassment, junior high students, perception of gender equity, attitude of sexual harassing