Sexual Harassment Is Common In Scientific Fieldwork 362
sciencehabit writes: Universities and other workplaces have codes of conduct guarding against sexual harassment. But what about the more casual venue of scientific fieldwork—which is also a workplace? A new survey finds that sexual harassment and assaults occur frequently in the field, with little consequence for the perpetrators or explicit prohibitions against such conduct. The study reveals that the primary targets were young women who were harassed, assaulted, and even raped by men who were usually senior to them in rank, although men also reported harassment.
Boobies (Score:5, Funny)
Scientist A: Show me pictures of your boobies!
Scientist B: They're really big [wikipedia.org]
My hobby: Making clean jokes.
Re:Some people are jerks (Score:4, Funny)
And very unfortunately, such jerks are more likely to be able to grub funding for their research labs from government offices.
Re:Some people are jerks (Score:2, Funny)
For that matter, I'm sure that there are at least occasional cases where a lesbian tries to seduce another woman that isn't interested in experimenting, although these almost never get into the news.
What are you talking about? I have watch multiple documentaries about that on the internet.
Fieldwork in particular? (Score:5, Funny)
SKINNER: Six hours, nineteen minutes, right ascension, fourteen degrees, twenty-two minutes declination... no sighting.
BART: Mm-hm.
SKINNER: Six hours, nineteen minutes, right ascension, fourteen degrees, twenty-three minutes declination... no sighting.
BART: Mm-hm.
SKINNER: (excitedly) Six hours, nineteen minutes, right ascension, fourteen degrees, fifty-eight minutes declination! ...no sighting. Did you get that one Bart?
BART: Hell no.
I can't imagine why scientific fieldwork in particular could provide an environment that promotes inappropriate behavior.
Re:Some people hook up (Score:2, Funny)
Presumably having a continuous good time is against policy.
Re:Some people are jerks (Score:5, Funny)
Not all Sexual harassment isn't illegal.
I'm not sure if what you hadn't stated isn't what you didn't think you couldn't have meant.