Alwaght- 12.5 percent of French women has been raped at least once in their lifetime, An opinion poll shows.
A study by Fondation Jean Jaurès shows that one in every eight French women, four million women, have been victims of penetrative sexual violence, the Guardian reported on Saturday.
The study by the Paris-based think tank that surveyed 2,167 women over the age of 18 also found that majority (58 per cent) of French women had suffered inappropriate behavior and 43 per cent had been touched without their consent.
Half of women said they had been verbally insulted or the target of sexist remarks and one in five said they had received pornographic emails or text messages, the report found.
The disturbing figures are revealed as French women are increasingly break their silence in the their own version of the #MeToo campaign.
#MeToo started on Twitter in the wake of unnerving revelations over the recent months of sexual violence against women by men reigning over the cinema industry’s stratosphere, most notoriously, Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein.
Sandra Muller, a US-based French journalist, proceeded then to create the French version of the campaign, namely #balancetonporc (Expose your pig), encouraging women to reveal the names of those who had sexually abused them.
