Together We Can Do Better: A Gathering of Leaders in Academia to Prevent Sexual Harassment Proceedings of a Workshop–in Brief (2019) / Chapter Skim
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Together We Can Do Better: A Gathering of Leaders in Academia to Prevent Sexual Harassment: Proceedings of a Workshop - in Brief
Together We Can Do Better: A Gathering of Leaders in Academia to Prevent Sexual Harassment: Proceedings of a Workshop - in Brief
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The report's release in June 2018 was a first step in the ongoing conversation and a collective effort across academic institutions, professional societies, and federal agencies to prevent sexual harassment. It demonstrates the important role funders of research play in preventing sexual harassment in higher education.
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Kathryn Clancy, associate professor of anthropology at the University of Illinois, reinforced Cortina's point that gender harassment can have a severe and significant impact on women's professional careers. One striking finding from a survey Clancy and her colleagues conducted on workplace safety in the astronomy and planetary science fields showed that women of color and white women will skip professional events when they feel unsafe at work.
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Issues discussed included the gender pay gap as a form of discrimination, labelling behaviors as gender harassment, frequency of professional and social retaliation to deter victims from reporting, best practices in increasing awareness of sexual harassment, and effective training to change behaviors. MOVING BEYOND LEGAL COMPLIANCE AND TOWARD PREVENTION The Sexual Harassment of Women report emphasizes the need for sexual harassment to be addressed as a significant culture and climate issue.
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It requires that awardee organizations notify NSF of any findings or determinations of sexual harassment and other forms of harassment, sexual assault involving a principal investigator or a co-principal investigator, or the imposition of any administrative action relating to harassment or sexual assault finding or investigation. In effort to bolster their policies and guidelines, NSF has revised its sexual harassment webpage to include promising practices on policies and effective codes of conduct that may be applied at NSF-funded workplaces.
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Menon described two initiatives established at Yale in 2011 that helped address sexual harassment on campus. These initiatives culminated in a centralized Title IX program within the provost's office and the formation of a university-wide committee on sexual misconduct that acts as a central body to adjudicate formal complaints.
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SEXUAL HARASSMENT TRAINING: BEYOND CHECKING THE BOX The Sexual Harassment of Women report recommends that institutions consider implementing bystander intervention training such as Confronting Prejudiced Response (CPR) and Behavior Modeling Training (BMT)
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CAMPUS CLIMATE SURVEYS AND MEASURING PROGRESS: ARC3, SEA CHANGE, AND OTHER INNOVATIVE IDEAS Rigorous data collection is an important step in the effort to reduce and prevent sexual harassment. The Sexual Harassment of Women report called for academic institutions to work with researchers to evaluate and assess their efforts to create more inclusive, diverse, and respectful cultures.
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2009. False Reports: Moving Beyond the Issue to Successfully Investigate and Prosecute Non-Stranger Sexual Assault.
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