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posted by janrinok on Monday September 22 2014, @04:28AM   Printer-friendly
from the ashamed dept.

Margaret C. Hardy reports that the life sciences have recently come under fire with a study that investigated the level of sexual harassment and sexual assault of trainees in academic fieldwork environments and found that 71% of women and 41% of men respondents experienced sexual harassment, while 26% of women and 6% of men reported experiencing sexual assault. The research team also found that within the hierarchy of academic field sites surveyed, the majority of incidents were perpetrated by peers and supervisors. "More often it is the men of one’s own field team, one’s co-workers, who violate their female colleagues," writes A. Hope Jahren:

There is a fundamental and culturally learned power imbalance between men and women, and it follows us into the workplace. The violence born of this imbalance follows us also. We would like to believe that it stops short of following us into the laboratory and into the field — but it does not. I listen to my colleagues talk endlessly about recruiting more women into STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) disciplines, and postulate what the barriers might be. Sexual assault is a pernicious and formidable barrier to women in science, partly because we have consistently gifted to it our silence. I have given it 18 years of my silence and I will not give it one day more.

Many of us work in fields related to this study - what are your experiences?

 
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  • (Score: 2) by mtrycz on Monday September 22 2014, @08:39AM

    by mtrycz (60) on Monday September 22 2014, @08:39AM (#96655)

    Only that TFS clearly states that 26% of women reported sexual [i]assault[/i].

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 22 2014, @01:55PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 22 2014, @01:55PM (#96760)

    what the AC said is correct though, women in western society (mostly North America) now say its assault if you even go so far as to ask them if they would like to have a drink after work. this SJW bullshit really needs to end, its nothing more than mental illness.