When 24-year-old aspiring actress Shoshana Roberts was filmed with a hidden camera walking around New York in a plain T-shirt, jeans and trainers she received 108 "catcalls". Here's what happened when the Herald carried out the same experiment in Auckland.
Women on the mean streets of Mumbai in India appear to be safer than those in New York city, according to India's own version of the viral catcall video.
The original video, launched by the Hollaback project, documented a woman walking the streets of New York being harrassed, cat-called andpropositioned over the course of 10 hours.
But in Mumbai, a video produced under similar conditions shows a woman freely walking the streets, day and night, without being subject to any form of harrassment whatsoever, the Business Insider Australia reports.
A similar experiment was in carried out in New Zealand on Auckland's Queen Street which showed a woman walking the streets being stopped twice; once she was asked if she was Italian and told she looked nice, the second to ask her for directions.
App users tap here to watch the Herald's catcall video.
