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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: 0, Troll) by zugedneb on Monday September 22 2014, @01:46PM

    by zugedneb (4556) on Monday September 22 2014, @01:46PM (#96753)

    What I have difficult to see in these kind of reports, is "proportion"...

    1: Faggots and such
    Some examples: I come from romania, but etnic hungarian, and have lived in sweeden for about 24 years...
    Neither the romanians, hungarians or swedes have in their culture to discuss others sexuality in detail. Do homosexuals complain and claim discrimination? Hell, yeah...
    I have never been in a conversation, or overheard a conversation, or heard anyone talk about a conversation about someones sexuality... Except, of course, around various religious or middle east immigrant circles...
    And yet, the media blows this shit into enormity: we have to do something about discrimination based on sexual preference at workplaces!11!!!1
    So where the fuck does this discrimination happen? Never seen it myself...
    Of course, I tend not to end up in conversation around some blokes life, but still, I should have at least heard of this from more sources than the media, yes?

    2: Sexual discrimination of woman
    Again, only heard of this in the media... Never seen it actually happen, neither at university, or any workplace I have visited.
    Never heard anyone I know tell me about anyone he/she knows that have experienced this...
    Of course, I do not know *that* many people...

    Yes, people who have been in poor or far away places in the world, like turkey or middle east, did complain from time to time. On the other hand, they should have followed the dress code in that particular place, instead of looking more lecherous than local prostitutes, and being richer then like 95% of the local population...

    But, let me give one other take on this: I HAVE seen a decent amount of people, mostly woman, especially those who look good, regardless of age, looking like whores at workplace... That is, dressing in a fashion that is designed to draw looks.
    Now, here is the deal: we are born, we are young, and some may actually look good for a while.
    And then, we spend a lot of time ageing, decaying, and not looking particularly good, while still being at full intellectual capacity...
    Some may be sad, bitter, angry, depressed or whatever other feelings I can not name over this.
    It might be painful for many to realize that the time of "sexual" adventure, and the thrill of meeting new people are over.

    Now, if some people dress deliberately as whores, the only message to others is "look at me, I fuck some in unimaginable ways, but not *you*".
    This might go home at the local bar, but not at the place you work at.
    There is no reason to "tempt" or remind those that have come of age, or do not look "good", what they are deprived of, especially at the place you work, it might cause reactions that are "unpleasant".

    I think the english word for this is being "decent". Known by more man, than woman, though...

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 23 2014, @06:19AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 23 2014, @06:19AM (#97049)

    looking like whores at workplace... That is, dressing in a fashion that is designed to draw looks.

    Now, if some people dress deliberately as whores, the only message to others is "look at me, I fuck some in unimaginable ways, but not *you*".

    There is no reason to "tempt" or remind those that have come of age, or do not look "good", what they are deprived of,

    Speak for yourself. I like looking at them, I don't care that they fuck others and won't fuck me. Now if they complained about others looking at them and enjoying the way they look then they're being unreasonable. Worse if they complained only about some looking at them (e.g. they're only fine if those they find attractive look at them, and they expect the rest to not).

    I like looking at beautiful scenery, cute puppies/bunnies, etc. I also like looking at cute, beautiful, slutty and elegant ladies.

    As you yourself say - youth and beauty fades and only lasts a short while for most. So it seems logical to me that you should make the most of it while you have it. So you young beautiful ones, don't be discouraged by the prudes BUT beware of the assholes, perverts and dangerous violent ones[1].

    [1] Some supposed prudes actually fall in the violent perverted assholes category - just take a close look at the religious police in some countries (I wonder about some of the FBI too - they seem to have a rather strange focus when supposedly "battling child porn").