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> An investigation by The Associated Press last month uncovered a pattern of women who said their claims of harassment or assault were minimized by their employ

• foobarbecue 3y ago
  Nothing, according to the article: The AP sent the NSF a detailed list of questions about its investigation in early June and has continued to correspond since, including asking for any planned changes to address sexual harassment and assault. The NSF never listed any planned changes to alcohol policies. “Because these changes are related to morale and welfare and not sexual assault/harassment prevention, we did not mention this program initiative in our previous response,” the NSF said in a statement.
• orwin 3y ago
  I think they're not wrong on this particular case sadly. Second hand source, but I know a biologist who worked on the Kerguelen for two years (on pingouins colonies). It's basically the same as the international Antarctica base. The stories he told me about the rampant alcoholism, the orgies, the lax attitude... He had to go out regularly during the 'summer', when the winds allowed it, to get film back and install new film/clean cameras (it was in the early 90s). It was impossible to go alone, too dangerous, but it was really hard to find personnel to accompany him the first year because missing on alcohol was hard for most people. His second year a woman who didn't know about the activities stayed on the base during the 6 'no contact' months, and her only escape was getting out as much as possible on outside mission (which he appreciated as he collected enough data to come back instead of doing his 3rd year).