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posted by Fnord666 on Friday May 10 2019, @12:02PM   Printer-friendly
from the unsurprising dept.

From ieee

Female IEEE members say they face significant discrimination in the workplace, including demeaning comments, inappropriate job-interview questions, and exclusion from networking events and important business meetings.

Those were among the most common negative experiences reported by more than 4,500 members—associate member grade and above—from around the world who answered a survey IEEE conducted in 2017. The results were released last year.

Almost half of those surveyed worked in academia, and about 30 percent were from private industry. The rest worked for governmental or nonprofit institutions, or were graduate students or self-employed. The majority of respondents (65 percent) lived outside the United States.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 10 2019, @05:58PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 10 2019, @05:58PM (#841955)

    From the NAS report:

    There are reliable scientific methods for determining the prevalence of sexual harassment. To measure the incidence of sexual harassment, surveys should follow the best practices that have emerged from the science of sexual harassment. This includes use of the Sexual Experiences Questionnaire, the most widely used and well-validated instrument available for measuring sexual harassment; assessment of specific behaviors without requiring the respondent to label the behaviors “sexual harassment”; focus on first-hand experience or observation of behavior (rather than rumor or hearsay); and focus on the recent past (1–2 years, to avoid problems of memory decay). Relying on the number of official reports of sexual harassment made to an organization is not an accurate method for determining the prevalence.
    Some surveys underreport the incidence of sexual harassment because they have not followed standard and valid practices for survey research and sexual harassment research.
    While properly conducted surveys are the best methods for estimating the prevalence of sexual harassment, other salient aspects of sexual harassment and its consequences can be examined using other research methods, such as behavioral laboratory experiments, interviews, case studies, ethnographies, and legal research. Such studies can provide information about the presence and nature of sexually harassing behavior in an organization, how it develops and continues (and influences the organizational climate), and how it attenuates or amplifies outcomes from sexual harassment.

    It isn't all subjective and, while the report isn't definitive, it is evidence and shouldn't be so easily dismissed.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 13 2019, @03:33PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 13 2019, @03:33PM (#843041)

    are these the same studies that count "being asked out by someone you don't like" as a "sexual harassment" because that's how they get those absurd assault numbers the identity politics feminist are always throwing around