ELECTRIFYING ANTI – HARASSMENT BRA

This scientific paper is compiled for participation in the Lomba Peneliti Belia PPB
held by Dinas Pendidikan, Pemuda dan Olahraga DIY (Dikpora DIY) On the Year
2012

Written By:

Antonio Kurniawan Petranova (X7-05 / 16364)

Dave Rinatza Zain (X7-10 / 16369)

Evan Adhi Pratama (X7-16 / 16375)

SMA NEGERI 6 Yogyakarta

Yogyakarta

2012
 Chapter I

Introduction

A.Background Topics

Sexual harassment is an illegal behavior that merely approaches unwanted sex, including
requests for sexand other behaviors that physically or verbally refer to sex. Sexual
harassment commonly happens to women mainly because they cannot defend themselves
in public. Sexual harassment may occur in buses, markets, schools, offices, public places,
or even in private places like homes. Helpless women cannot defend themselves against
sexual abusers. Thus, makes the abusers have a greater appetite to sexual harassment and
also to keep doing it. To cope with the rampant sexual abuse towards women, we have
created a new innovation of technology in the form of a bra that can emit electrical
charges when touched. We have created a bra because the chestis an easy target for the
perpetrators. With this tool, the perpetrators will think twice about abusing women.

Sexual harassment has serious emotional effects on its victims. It can also do damage to a
victim's career. If you bring a sex harassment case in court, getting through it and
rebuilding your career afterward may seem almost as difficult as the harassment itself. An
attorney with experience in handling sexual harassment cases can offer suggestions and
resources to help you deal with the effects of a case.
B. Research Problems

1. How can we setup and use the tool on a bra?

2. Will there be any side effects when using the tool?
3. How much would the bra cost?
4. Would this tool be effective in putting up with sexual harassment?

C. Research Objectives
To defend women against sexual harassment in a public place.

D.Research Benefits
1. So that women will have a form of defense against sexual harassers.
2. To find out how to use the tool.
3. To find out how effective the tool is.
4. To find out how much influence the tool has for its users.
5. To find out what effect the tool inflicts for its users (negative as well as positive).
 Chapter II

Literature Reviews
http://www.amglaw.com/CM/FSDP/PracticeCenter/Employment-Employee/Sexual-
Harassment.asp?focus=topic&id=4

http://www.google.co.id/

http://translate.google.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_harassment
 Chapter III

Research Methods
Sexual harassment is intimidation, bullying or coercion of a sexual nature, or the unwelcome or
inappropriate promise of rewards in exchange for sexual favors. In most modern legal contexts
sexual harassment is illegal. As defined by EEOC, "It is unlawful to harass a person (an
applicant or employee) because of that person’s sex." Harassment can include "sexual
harassment" or unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or
physical harassment of a sexual nature.

Where laws surrounding sexual harassment exist, they typically don’t prohibit simple teasing,
offhand comments, or minor isolated incidents. In the workplace, harassment may be considered
illegal when it is so frequent or severe that it creates a hostile or offensive work environment or
when it results in an adverse employment decision (such as the victim being fired or demoted, or
when the victim decides to quit the job).

The harasser can be the victim's supervisor, a supervisor in another area, a co-worker, or
someone who is not an employee of the employer, such as a client or customer.

It includes a range of behavior from mild transgressions to sexual abuse or sexual assault. Sexual
harassment is a form of illegalemployment discrimination in many countries, and is a form of
abuse (sexual and psychological) and bullying. For many businesses and other organizations,
preventing sexual harassment, and defending employees from sexual harassment charges, have
become key goals of legal decision-making.
Coining the Term and History

The term sexual harassment was used in 1973 in a report to the then President and Chancellor of
MIT about various forms of gender issues. Rowe has stated that she believes she was not the first
to use the term, since sexual harassment was being discussed in women's groups in
Massachusetts in the early 1970s, but that MIT may have been the first or one of the first large
organizations to discuss the topic (in the MIT Academic Council), and to develop relevant
policies and procedures. MIT at the time also recognized the injuries caused by racial harassment
and the harassment of women of color which may be both racial and sexual. The President of
MIT also stated that harassment (and favoritism) are antithetical to the mission of a university as
well as intolerable for individuals.

In the book In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution (1999), journalist Susan Brownmiller quotes
the Cornell activists who in 1975 thought they had coined the term sexual harassment: "Eight of
us were sitting in an office ... brainstorming about what we were going to write on posters for our
speak-out. We were referring to it as 'sexual intimidation,' 'sexual coercion,' 'sexual exploitation
on the job.' None of those names seemed quite right. We wanted something that embraced a
whole range of subtle and un-subtle persistent behaviors. Somebody came up with 'harassment.'
'Sexual harassment!' Instantly we agreed. That's what it was." These activists, Lin Farley, Susan
Meyer, and Karen Sauvigne went on to form Working Women's Institute which, along with the
Alliance Against Sexual Coercion, founded in 1976 by Freada Klein, Lynn Wehrli, and Elizabeth
Cohn-Stuntz, were among the pioneer organizations to bring sexual harassment to public
attention in the late 1970s. Still the term was largely unknown until the early 1990s when Anita
Hill witnessed and testified against Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas. Since Hill
testified in 1991, the number of sexual harassment cases reported in US and Canada increased 58
percent and have climbed steadily ever since.
Harassment Situations

Sexual harassment may occur in a variety of circumstances. Often, but not always, the harasser is
in a position of power or authority over the victim (due to differences in age, or social, political,
educational or employment relationships) or expecting to receive such power or authority in
form of promotion. Forms of harassment relationships include:

 The harasser can be anyone, such as a client, a co-worker, a parent or legal guardian,
relative, a teacher or professor, a student, a friend, or a stranger.
 The victim does not have to be the person directly harassed but can be a witness of such
behavior who finds the behavior offensive and is affected by it.
 The place of harassment occurrence may vary from school, university, workplace and
other
 There may be other witnesses or attendances, or not
 The harasser may be completely unaware that his or her behavior is offensive or
constitutes sexual harassment or may be completely unaware that his or her actions could
be unlawful.
 The harassment may be one time occurrence but more often it has a type of repetitiveness
 Adverse effects on the target are common in the form of stress and social with drawal,
sleep and eating difficulties, overall health impairment, etc.
 The victim and harasser can be any gender
 The harasser does not have to be of the opposite sex.
 Misunderstanding: It can result from a situation where one thinks he/she is making
themselves clear, but is not understood the way they intended. The misunderstanding can
either be reasonable or unreasonable. An example of unreasonable is when a man holds a
certain stereotypical view of a woman such that he did not understand the woman’s
explicit message to stop.
Common Effects on the Victims

Common psychological, academic, professional, financial, and social effects of sexual

harassment and retaliation:

 Psychological stress and health impairment

 Decreased work or school performance as a result of stress conditions; increased
absenteeism in fear of harassment repetition
 Firing and refusal for a job opportunity can lead to loss of job or career, loss of income
 Having to drop courses, change academic plans, or leave school (loss of tuition) in fear of
harassment repetition and/or as a result of stress
 Being objectified and humiliated by scrutiny and gossip
 Having one's personal life offered up for public scrutiny—the victim becomes the
"accused," and his or her dress, lifestyle, and private life will often come under attack.
 Becoming publicly sexualized (i.e. groups of people "evaluate" the victim to establish if
he or she is "worth" the sexual attention or the risk to the harasser's career)
 Defamation of character and reputation
 Loss of trust in environments similar to where the harassment occurred
 Loss of trust in the types of people that occupy similar positions as the harasser or his or
her colleagues, especially in case they are not supportive, difficulties or stress on peer
relationships, or relationships with colleagues
 Effects on sexual life and relationships: can put extreme stress upon relationships with
significant others, sometimes resulting in divorce
 Weakening of support network, or being ostracized from professional or academic circles
(friends, colleagues, or family may distance themselves from the victim, or shun him or
her altogether)
 Having to relocate to another city, another job, or another school
 Loss of references/recommendations.
Definition of a Bra

A bra is an undergarment worn by women to support their breasts. Bras have a function to
keep the wearer's breast strong and firm and also to cover the breast. Several bra designers
also added other functions as well. One of the functions is to make the wearer's breast larger.
Nowadays, there are lots of products such as breast cream that is applied to the bra that can
make the user's breast larger. Bras also prevent the fat stored in the breast from spreading,
especially to the stomach because it may make women appear overweight. One industry in
America named Looper Law Enforcement created an innovation of a bra which has a
compartment to store guns. The bra named The Flashbangis sold online with a price of
US$40 or the same as Rp. 378.000,-. However this bra is only useful as the woman fights
against the harasser at a crime scene.
 Chapter IV

Results and Founding

A. Materials
1. 2 Pieces ofAluminium Foil
The aluminium foil is used for conducting the electrical charges.

2. 2 Bras
2 bras are used because one is used to place the electrical circuit and the
other is to cover the circuit.

3. One 1000uf/6V Capacitor

The capacitor is used to create electrical charges.

4. 2 AAA batteries

The batteries are the sources of energy to create the electrical charges.

5. 1 Switch

The switch is used to either turn on the circuit or turn it off.

6. 2Cables
The cables are used for distributing the electrical charges towards the switch,
capacitor and the aluminium foil.

7. Plastic

The plastic is used to hold the switch and the battery case on the bra.
8. Battery Case

The battery case is used to hold the two AAA batteries.

B. Diagram
Plastic
Battery case Switch
Capacitor

Aluminium foil

C. Advantages
1. It may help cope with sexual harassment.
2. It gives women a type of defense against sexual harassment in public places.

D. Disadvantages
1. It may only shock the harasser.
2. It may have some side effects to its user.
3. Low comfortability.
E. Price Estimation
1. Aluminium foil = Rp. 10.000,-
2. 2 bras = Rp. 60.000,-
3. Capacitor 1000uf/6V = Rp. 600,-
4. 2 AAA battery = Rp. 20.000,-
5. Switch = Rp. 5.000,-
6. Cables = Rp. 3.000,-
7. Cloth = Rp. 10.000,-
8. Plastic = Rp. 15.000,-
9. Battery case = Rp. 5.000,-
+

TOTAL = Rp. 128.600,-

 Chapter V

Conclusion and Suggestions

The Electrifying Anti-Harassment Bra is a tool for women to use with an objective to give
women a form of defense against sexual harassment in public or private places. With the creation
of this tool, women may never be scared when they go out alone. We hope that this tool may also
reduce the number of sexual harassment in the modern world. If harassers ever dare to touch
women that are wearing this bra, it'll release an electrical charge, electrifying the harasser's
hands. With this, we hope that harassers may never again try to sexually harass women.