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Sexual harassment is rife in the sciences, finds landmark US study
- fein 8y ago> Landmark US Study! > Just take our word for it, or else pay $60 for the report itself. Can we please stop doing this shit?
- edwinksl 8y agoLooks like you can download for free as a "guest" but you need to give them an email address (maybe get a throwaway).
- beat 8y agoThe "Download free PDF" button might require email (I didn't try it), but the "Read Online" button just pops up the doc with no further info required. Either way, it's only $60 if you want a print copy, apparently.
- fein 8y agoSure, but at that point isn't this nature article basically an advertisement for that report?
- beat 8y agoIsn't every Nature article an advertisement for a scientific report you might have to pay for to get in print? It's free to read. The button is right there on their page.
- fein 8y agoI honestly didn't realize how bad this site is until I clicked around a bit and saw all the paywall stuff. I always thought they were scholarly articles, appears not.
- beat 8y agoArticles from scholarly journals usually cost money. Nature of the beast for narrow-interest publishing with no advertiser support. The fact that Nature links to the source articles is a big plus in my book.
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- guelo 8y agohttps://www.nap.edu/read/24994/chapter/1 https://www.nap.edu/read/24994/chapter/1
- edwinksl 8y agoThanks for finding a direct link. Maybe you can post it as a top-level comment so others can more easily see it.
- shoguning 8y agoProfessors have too much control over grad students and academic labs are too insulated from the greater institution. Profs have basically no oversight on how the treat and/or pay grad students. Any institution serious about tackling this and many other issues needs to reform the employment relationship with grad students. Grad student funding should not be coming from one professor's grant money, but the department. Independence in scientific direction? Yes. Independence in personnel management? No.
- alexslobodnik 8y ago<<Independence in scientific direction? Yes. Independence in personnel management? No.>> Is this possible?
- beat 8y agoIt's hard. Bosses can (and should) be able to fire for poor performance, but then an abusive boss can invent a "performance" reason to fire an underling for resisting harassment. And it does happen, all the time, which leads to a lot of underreporting of harassment, for fear of getting fired. It's no different from the need for whistleblower laws, really. A heavy, bureaucratic firing process protects underlings (somewhat) from abusive bosses, but at a cost of protecting incompetence. You'll see this in any big corporation, and a great many academic jobs as well. The whole idea of tenure in academia is to protect academics from retaliation so they can speak freely. But their lab assistants and secretaries and such get no such protection.
- luddaite 8y agoWith regard to firing grad students: I think it is quite rare to see grad students fired. Typically there are two strategies to get rid of a graduate student: 1) Just graduate them (either with a masters or with a undeserved PhD) 2) Make their lives miserable so they quit. I don't think switching the source of funding for graduate to the department really prevents either of these from happening.
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- Pfhreak 8y agoWhile we've gone through some amount of publicly addressing this in industries like film, I suspect there are many industries where we're not introspective enough to even recognize there's a problem yet. I worked in games for a while, and I'd not be surprised to see that industry have a #metoo moment sometime over the next few years. We're just starting to see individuals called out in some of the more progressive studios [1], I suspect this is just the tip of the iceberg. [1]https://waypoint.vice.com/en_us/article/yweqk5/harebrained-schemes-designer-accused-of-sexual-harassment-resigns https://waypoint.vice.com/en_us/article/yweqk5/harebrained-s...
- viridian 8y agoThere are quite a few lead designers in the industry with this reputation. I've heard a couple of stories about Cage in particular, it'll be interesting to see how it plays out.
- pjc50 8y agoGame development has been pretty terrible to its staff for a long time; the famous ea_spouse post was in 2004! https://ea-spouse.livejournal.com/274.html https://ea-spouse.livejournal.com/274.html
- tehwebguy 8y agoIndeed, film just stands out because the perpetrators and/or victims are famous.
- beat 8y agoWomen: No shit. Men: I FEEL PERSONALLY ATTACKED!! Just watch. That's exactly what will happen here. edit: And the downvotes pour down like rain. No shit.
- jeffreyrogers 8y agoYou're not getting downvoted for the reason you think. You're getting downvoted because you're generalizing about an entire gender and don't realize the irony of that as it relates to your point.
- beat 8y agoI think I covered that with "I FEEL PERSONALLY ATTACKED!!" It's not "ironic". It's a basic rhetoric technique in discussions of racism and sexism. If a generalization is made that doesn't specifically (preferably personally) exclude some dude, then suddenly it's all about him and how offended he is to be lumped in with this thing that of course he doesn't do. And then the conversation degenerates into said dude(s) howling about the offense to his sacred honor, and the original topic is lost. Sit back and watch any online discussion about sexism, you will see this pattern repeated. Saying the downvotes are because I'm generalizing is missing the point entirely. That's just an excuse for the downvote. The reason for the downvote is I pointed out the nasty, toxic, sexist crap, so I'm getting punished for it.
- kinghajj 8y agoIf that were true, then why are other posts discussing the topic constructively getting upvoted? Maybe your original post was just slightly alienating.
- beat 8y agoAlienating to whom? In the interest of the Socratic method, do you think women would be more likely to downvote the OP, or men?
- ythn 8y agoI read an article (semi) recently posted here where women and other minorities felt attacked on Stack Overflow because of their gender/color, even though they were (for all intents and purposes) anonymous! Could this be the case here as well - women interpreting something that's not sexual harassment as sexual harassment? I.e. if a professor criticizes a woman's paper, she might interpret that as an attack on her gender, even if it isn't: > The most common type of sexual harassment is gender harassment, the report finds. Such behaviour conveys the impression that women do not belong in the workplace or do not merit respect — “the put-downs as opposed to the come-ons”, Johnson says Is this self-reported harassment? If so, a "put-down" is highly subjective and the SO article shows that women and minorities can take extra offense where none was intended.
- azinman2 8y agoI think you should hear more about the experiences of women and minorities. Harassment, intentional or unintentional, is far more the norm than you might think, SO aside (I haven’t seen that so I can’t comment).
- oh_sigh 8y agoPlease don't imply that only women and minorities can be harassed. Per the article, men report gender harassment in academia fairly frequently as well(but, women report it 1.64x more frequently). So, if men and women have the same standards for reporting, ~37% of gender harassment claims are made by men.
- azinman2 8y agoI’d love to see these stats on gender harassment towards men in a male dominated field. Regardless, the parent was about the experiences of women and minorities, so that’s what I’m specifically discussing. This kind of knee jerk reaction feels very misplaced against the backdrop of habitual callousness that goes on a daily basis.
- matte_black 8y agoAmongst the valid claims of real harassment there are always cases like this. It is difficult to classify though because of the emotionally charged nature of the topic. There is little to gain in doing so, and in some cases it's even discouraged.
- ggg9990 8y agoEvery industry where powerful men are gatekeepers is like this -- some are just higher profile than others. Politics, film, and other high profile industries will be first to be publicized, but it exists everywhere.
- jpm_sd 8y agoYes. Sexual harassment in rife in the... everything.
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- n1231231231234 8y agoi don't know whether the gatekeeping is even a necessary component. speaking wrt academia now, even in fields where there is a decent gender balance, sexual harassment seems to be pretty prevalent, as prevalent as in other, less balanced fields. the reason, as mentioned in the article, is probably that oftentimes policies are in place to protect the universities, not the victims.
- kj01a 8y agoExactly, all we need to do is give women power over men and sexual harassment won't exist anymore.
- chillingeffect 8y agoAnd the good news is, like institutions finally learning to recognize good female candidates, we're finally starting to acknowledge that women abuse, molest and rape men, too. [1] [1] https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/11/the-understudied-female-sexual-predator/503492/ https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/11/the-unde...
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- RcouF1uZ4gsC 8y agoThe major issue is that in general society values results above all else. As long as you are producing, with few exceptions, your supporters will back you up. Look at Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, Weinstein (until just recently), Roman Polanski for examples. While I hope the focus and importance that #MeToo has brought to the issue of sexual harassment will be a long term thing, I think human nature being what it is, people will make the right statements while in reality continuing to protect and promote harassers as long as they are producing for them (be they politicians or scientists or engineers).
- cautionarytale 8y agoPolanski raped a child. That's a whole different level of awful than everything else being discussed here.
- RcouF1uZ4gsC 8y agoCompletely agree. But look how much support he maintained in Hollywood, even winning an Oscar for Best Director. The fact that someone who raped a child, can maintain such support should tell us that getting people and institutions to really go after harassers(who while awful are not child rape level of awful) is going to be an uphill battle.
- sp332 8y agoI'm not sure that these people care about results that much. Movies with women writers, directors, and leads are setting records. When the abusive men are being protected, women are pushed out even if they would have performed better than the men. I think misogyny is the root cause here, not a focus on results.
- ddebernardy 8y agoWasn't there a thing called Gamergate related to that a few years back? I only followed it from afar, but best I can recollect it seemed like there was a lot more to sexism in gaming than just within the industry itself.
- d0lph 8y agoThat is one side of it.
- PhasmaFelis 8y agoJust for the record: GamerGate was 100% founded on harassing women. The "ethics in games journalism" thing was only ever a front to build popular support, which unfortunately worked. I'm happy to post more details if you're unconvinced. If you're legitimately concerned about journalistic ethics in the gaming world (which is a real thing), you should really avoid the "GamerGate" moniker as much as possible. EDIT: My vote total is bouncing up and down like a rubber ball, so I'll just go ahead and post the details I mentioned. GamerGate was founded around an incident where Eron Gjoni made a blog post accusing his girlfriend Zoe Quinn, who makes free video games, of cheating on him with several men, whom he named. Most of them were also game developers. One of them, Nathan Grayson, was a games journalist. He once wrote an article with a single paragraph about one of Quinn's games, released (by Gjoni's timeline) months before he allegedly slept with Quinn. This narrative somehow became "women developers everywhere are sleeping with writers to promote their shitty games and it's destroying gaming and must be stopped." This wasn't even an accusation Gjoni made; it was a conclusion jumped to by his readers. Ethics in games journalism is a legitimate issue. Major publishers have been buying good reviews with cash and perks for almost as long as there's been a gaming industry. No one's ever cared enough to make a lasting fuss about that. It wasn't until a woman who writes tiny, free games was accused falsely of buying good reviews that the cry of corruption went up. I think that illustrates firmly what the real priorities were here. Some well-meaning people have taken GamerGate's message at face value and been motivated to expose actual ethical issues. That's laudable, but doing it under the GamerGate banner devalues the entire message. EDIT AGAIN: crooked-v's post and link about the controversy around the GamesJournosPros mailing list is also valuable. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17306791 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17306791
- Proven 8y agoAmerican academic standards have been declining for decades - one can tell by the shrinking on-campus freedoms and leftist dominance in academia. Well done.
- jupiter90000 8y agoIsn't sexual harassment rife pretty much everywhere? When you listen to what both men and women have really been subjected to, it's just sad and the prevalence is honestly depressing to me. I even have worked with people who think they're not the type to sexually harass and then see them engaging the behavior unknowingly (basically in denial).
- sp332 8y agoThe paper goes into a lot more detail. There are recommendations that have been made that are not being followed. The paper also puts forward some new recommendations based on the types of abuse they found.
- rhcom2 8y agoI think the first step is shine a big, bright light on it at least. #metoo definitely started doing that.
- magduf 8y agoSorry if this sounds totally naive, but how exactly does someone not know they're sexually harassing someone? If you're propositioning someone, making lewd comments, etc., then how do you not know that that constitutes sexual harassment?
- jupiter90000 8y agoThat's what confused me about those people too.
- toasterlovin 8y agoI don't mean this in any way to dismiss sexual harassment as a non-entity, but in some cases, the difference between flirting and sexual harassment basically entirely comes down to the level of interest that the recipient has. If they're into the perpetrator, it's flirting. If they're not, it's harassment. Given that, surely you can imagine that evolution would favor men who overestimate the degree to which their advances are viewed as favorable by the recipient.
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- andbberger 8y agoI spent some time at an 'elite' neuroscience institution - HHMI Janelia. They're good at window dressing but they try to 'hire the best' and prioritize that over everything else. As a result they end up with self-obsessed PIs who are good at publishing, not doing science - usually at the cost of all those under them in their lab, and then give them a ridiculous amount of power. As you can imagine, sexual harassment thrives in this environment. It's sick, and pushed me out of 'that' academia. I don't want to be a part of an institution that is built on empowering literally the worst, least altruistic, most exploitative people that ever lived. These people also necessarily suck at science. I'm done with it, the institutions need to be torn down and rebuilt. It's all bullshit. The process of doing science (the journals), the institutions, the incumbents. It has all got to go. I'm going to do science. But on my own terms. My new purpose in life is to take the energy I would have put into science, use it be clever and generate as much capital as possible - so I can participate in our democracy and create the institution I want to be part of. Join me. Quit your job, start a company. Burn it all down.
- Old_Thrashbarg 8y agoIn one of the neurology labs I was in at UCLA, I saw the same exact thing: publishing tons of garbage and not doing real science. There were some professors of higher integrity, but the PIs that were doing the garbage publishing were getting millions of dollars. One of my PIs, who was doing this, had a term for his publishing strategy: "salami publishing". You try to cut as thinly as possible your research and publish as many papers on it as you can. That's actually less harmful than the real problem which is that the papers were just rubbish and people in the lab seemed to all kind of know, but disliked discussing it.
- Balgair 8y agoThe whisper network I may (or may not) be privy to, may (or may not) indicate that LA's Chem is terrible when it comes to #MeToo.
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- mathattack 8y agoIt would seem like tenure (making it hard to fire people) compounds this problem.
- chrisseaton 8y agoTenure does not protect you from being fired for things like inappropriate behaviour.
- mathattack 8y agoDoesn’t it make it harder? Look at recent Stanford scandals.
- chrisseaton 8y agoNo, they can still fire you for incompetance, discipline, or if they can't afford you https://facultyhandbook.stanford.edu/handbooks/faculty-handbook/chapter-4/subchapter-4/page-4-4-2 https://facultyhandbook.stanford.edu/handbooks/faculty-handb... Tenure simply means 'without limit of time'. That's all it means. https://facultyhandbook.stanford.edu/handbooks/faculty-handbook/chapter-2/subchapter-1/page-2-1-3 https://facultyhandbook.stanford.edu/handbooks/faculty-handb...
- blacksmith_tb 8y agoI think that's less likely than you suggest - of course, tenure was originally intended to encourage academic freedom, to allow scholars to publish and teach without fear of being fired for having non-mainstream ideas. But tenure policies always include some conditions for dismissal 'for cause'[1], which includes immoral behavior. 1: https://www.aaup.org/issues/appointments-promotions-discipline/termination-discipline-2004 https://www.aaup.org/issues/appointments-promotions-discipli...
- kj01a 8y agoI believe this study was done with purely an interest in the facts and not a political agenda.
- RyanZAG 8y agoWith one of the major contributors to the paper being 'Committee on the Impacts of Sexual Harassment in Academic Science, Engineering, and Medicine'[1] who only get paid because sexual harassment exists surely can never have an agenda in proving such a thing exists. In a follow up study, we could go and ask the labour unions how much benefit they give to the average worker. Surprise finding! Labour unions benefit all workers immensely, and they benefit workers who pay the most in membership fees. And then we can follow up with a study by dentists on how regularly you should visit your dentist (hint: it's more often than you think!) [1] https://www.nap.edu/catalog/24994/sexual-harassment-of-women-climate-culture-and-consequences-in-academic https://www.nap.edu/catalog/24994/sexual-harassment-of-women...
- rayiner 8y agoThat’s a completely absurd argument. By that reasoning nothing can be done to study any problem.
- kj01a 8y agoOr... you could not pay your committee so they're not incentivized to find positive results.
- ythn 8y agoYes but must we always have Big Tobacco funding tobacco studies, Big Beer funding alcohol studies, etc.? It makes your publication reek of bias.
- RyanZAG 8y agoWe should probably keep doing studies to check how dentists think we should brush our teeth. We just shouldn't have dentists do a study on a variable that directly harms their income as we would already know the results they would give before the study is even done. If you wanted a study on that variable, you'd likely need to at least get input from someone who says going to dentists is a bad idea - but at that point, you're just going to have a shouting match and a statistics measuring contest between the dentists and the guy who doesn't think anybody should see dentists. Your results would likely be contradictory and fairly useless. We haven't yet found a way to do such studies in a useful manner, and it's an ongoing problem in politics that has yet to have a solution. And may never have a solution. And it's very important to be able to determine when such study variables align with the financial and ideological requirements of the researcher. If you can tell without doubt what the result of a study by a certain group will be before the study takes place, it's usually a red flag.
- carlyfan 8y agoI am an international grad student and a regular commentator on HN here, but as this topic is quite sensitive, I would like to remain anonymous. I just knew from a first-hand source, a very accomplished PI was suspended just a couple of weeks ago from the job held at a large research institute. He also had appointments at the two largest universities in the same state. The description was that he "stormed out of the building." Apparently, he (white male, eh) employs a number of postdocs from China and apparently made out/had sex with them. It was so ridiculous that there were witnesses of him pushing the postdoc-single mom baby's cart in the park. The reason is described in the article: If the postdocs want good recommendations, they better keep their mouths shut. Oh, and somehow, according to the same source (first-hand), reports of the sexual harassment from the PI was swept under the rug and was mysteriously disappeared before the #meeto movement. As an international student, I understand how hard it is to change jobs as a student in F-1 visa in here. The visa situation for international students and postdocs made it especially easy to exploit those people. If you get kicked out of the lab you're currently in, you have extremely limited time to find a lab in the same university, otherwise, you will be kicked back to the home country. If you find out that you're not a good fit for the university then you're literally fucked -- you can't be employed, you can't have gap time to find another one. The only way is to find another university who is willing to adopt you first and then transfer. But heck, that's a catch-22: How can you find another university if you don't have a good recommendation? Personally, I can attest to that visa situation from another angle. I have a very bad taste in my mouth the first week I worked for a public school as a grad student here. So before I entered grad school, I worked for a public educational institution in the US as an OPT student after receiving my bachelor's degree. They were grateful for the extra work I did for them before I departed for grad school, so they offered to pay me some trivial extra amount of money. So, to make sure everything was OK, I called up the international office in the new school to explain the situation. Not waiting for me to finish my sentence, they threatened to deport me because "I told you not to work on anything else when you're on F-1 visa." I was totally disheartened by that response and it literally ruined my whole positive outlook for the grad school for me.
- crankylinuxuser 8y agoThat's because those who won the 2016 election don't want you here. Indeed it is cruel to say, but I sit here with action after action trying to stick it to "foreigners" in every way possible. And there's nothing I can do to change any of these policies, other than vote in every election I'm allowed in. We used to want people like yourself. Intellectuals, science-minded, entrepreneurs; we used to cater to excel and bolster all of us. Because if we enticed you enough, you'd want to be a citizen here, live here, and continue the hard work and bring us all up. Perhaps it would be a good idea to get while the getting's good. Ive studied enough history to see how these current actions will likely take us. We already have an "enemy". Its being set that the G7 that it's G6+1. I just hope if things get too bad, your country will consider allowing us in (wherever that is). Maybe there's something we all can do to turn this around. We don't have the numbers, but we have intelligent people here on HN. There has to be some sort of solution between all of us.
- sheepmullet 8y ago> The most common type of sexual harassment is gender harassment, the report finds. I hate the way these reports misuse language and terminology. No lay person is going to think gender harassment is sexual harassment.
- sp332 8y agoI thought of that when I read it as well. I wouldn't consider passing over a woman for advancement as "sexual harassment". Fortunately it doesn't matter too much in this case because both kinds of behavior are relevant to the study.
- sheepmullet 8y agoCan someone please justify the downvotes? Who here thinks that all sexism is sexual harassment? And why? If I say to a woman "women are not capable of being good scientists" why is that sexual harassment as opposed to plain old sexism?
- bo1024 8y agoThis confused me too. Both are important problems, but I don't know if this categorization makes sense. I think of gender discrimination in the same category as other kinds of discrimination based on race, religion, body characteristics, sexual orientation, etc. It seems odd to lump only gender-based discrimination in with sexual harassment, and none of these others...
- ksk 8y agoThey used a legal definition. It makes sense since gender harassment can be an antecedent to sexual harassment. https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/types/sexual_harassment.cfm https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/types/sexual_harassment.cfm
- sheepmullet 8y ago> It makes sense since gender harassment can be an antecedent to sexual harassment. A lot of things can be antecedents to sexual harassment. This categorization obscures instead of illuminating. For example part of the findings for the study is transgender people are far more likely to face sexual harassment from staff. This sounds like normal harassment and highly unlikely to become sexual in nature. The approach you take to stopping this kind of harassment is unlikely to look anything like the approach you take to stop sexual exploitation.
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- fabian2k 8y agoOne factor that distinguishes academia here is that the power imbalance can be far greater compared to employees in a regular company. As a regular employee the worst case is usually just losing your job. A PhD student has much higher stakes, as you're potentially risking years of effort and your degree. A direct conflict with your adviser is not something you want to risk, as it can easily put you in a terrible situation. You also can't just switch departments or something like that without losing a lot of progress, if it is possible at all. The way science is structured makes it rather susceptible to abuse by people in authority, and it inherently discourages challenges by PhD students.
- kolpa 8y agoHere's the study report (free with "Guest" login): https://www.nap.edu/download/24994 https://www.nap.edu/download/24994 "Findings and Conclusions" sections are too long to summarize. excerpt from the "Students" section: KEY TAKEAWAYS • Overall, 20.0 percent of the students surveyed reported experiencing sexual harassment perpetrated by a faculty or staff member. • Female students (22.0 percent) and students who endorsed a gender other than male or female (46.3 percent) had significantly higher incidence rates of sexual harassment by faculty/staff, compared with male students (15.3 percent). • Female medical and engineering students both reported significantly higher incidence of sexual harassment by faculty/staff (medical: 47 percent, engineering: 27 percent), compared with students enrolled in another major (i.e., sciences, non-STEM). • Female students who experienced sexual harassment, compared with those who had not, generally reported worse physical and mental health outcomes, feeling less safe on campus, and higher levels across various indicators of academic disengagement. * Among female STEM students, although white (non-Hispanic) students reported greater incidence of sexual harassment by faculty/staff, students of color and white Hispanic students who experienced sexual harassment by faculty/staff generally perceived their campus as less safe than the other female STEM students.
- strken 8y agoInteresting that the rate for male students is ~70% of the rate for female students. I wonder if it's always been that high and nobody noticed, whether it's going up, or whether the female rate is going down faster.
- danieltillett 8y ago...or they define harassment so broadly that almost everyone is included. As a male scientist (former) I have been "harrassed" by male and female staff on many occasions, but on a level so trivial that it is totally meaningless. What we need to worry about is not trivial harassment, but the serious cases like staff sleeping with their students or continually propositing them with threats or inducements to their careers. Let's get away from a number grab and start focusing on the really bad first [1]. 1. My personal experience is the Sciences are the least bad in regard serious harassment with the Arts the worst by a factor of 10x at least.
- cs702 8y agoSeeing Nature reporting this as news feels to me a bit like watching Captain Louis Renault telling Rick Blaine: "I am shocked -- shocked! -- to find that gambling is going on in here!"[a] Still, it's progress. [a] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjbPi00k_ME https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjbPi00k_ME
- cup-of-tea 8y agoSexual harassment is rife everywhere. Every failed attempt at seduction could be considered harassment. But none of us would be here if our parents didn't try it.
- SolaceQuantum 8y agoIf anyone is interested in solutions, Frank Dobbin, a professor of sociology at Harvard that studies the effectiveness of anti sexual harassment programs has some interesting conclusions here: > The worst news is probably that men who are hostile to women to begin with do not improve with training. Men who score high on “likely harasser” and “gender role conflict” scales are the most likely to have adverse reactions to training > In an unpublished paper on diversity training, we find that mandatory training reduces actual workforce diversity and voluntary training increases it. It looks like forcible training of people who are hostile to the training message may backfire. > Workplace gender equity is still our best bet for reducing harassment, but progress on equity has stalled in the corporate world and on the faculty. http://www.asanet.org/news-events/footnotes/apr-may-2018/features/can-anti-harassment-programs-reduce-sexual-harassment http://www.asanet.org/news-events/footnotes/apr-may-2018/fea...
- tonyquart 8y agoTalking about sexual harassment, I have just read an article at https://www.lemberglaw.com/what-is-workplace-sexual-harassment/ https://www.lemberglaw.com/what-is-workplace-sexual-harassme... about this matter. I think sexual harassment is a very old crime, but we don't care about this problem. Thanks to some movements such as #MeToo which have helped many people to start speaking up about this.