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.
Re: Sexual Harassment Is Common In ... Everything (Score:1, Informative)
I think it actually means the same thing as "regardless".
Re:Some people are jerks (Score:5, Informative)
It's just stupid to blame a lack of policy for somebody doing something illegal. The absence of a policy in no way means the entity endorses an activity.
Re:Such harassment (Score:5, Informative)
Not to mention that it cheapens the really serious offenses like rape and repeated harassment when they are grouped in with telling a suggestive joke once or forwarding a suggestive E-mail.
Offending someone is one thing (and should be avoided) but doing actual harm is quite another. Let's not group them together.
Re: Sexual Harassment Is Common In ... Everything (Score:3, Informative)
from the link you provided:
" Its reputation has not risen over the years, and it is still a long way from general acceptance. Use regardless instead."
Re:Such harassment (Score:4, Informative)
And don't forget they almost always use operational definitions which tailor the statistics to suit their needs, like the NISVS refusing to count female-on-male rape as "Rape" and recording it instead as "Other".
Re:Such harassment (Score:2, Informative)