Coping with Poverty and Sexual Harassment

This study attempts to explore the vulnerable condition of street women in Dhaka city of Bangladesh. Women in Bangladesh are situated in such social, legal, political, and economic environment which sustains unequal gender power relations and tolerate the sexual harassment of women and leave them in more vulnerable situation and infringe their human rights. Sexual harassment makes street women's life more lamentable. It undermines their right to pursuing a secure and safe livelihood. The study will uncover how the intersection of their gender/ sex with class makes them to experience sexual harassment by masculine body (police) of our gendered state.