In a high-pressure surgical environment, where older male consultants dominate, and there is great competition for training positions and jobs, women are vulnerable to sexual harassment.
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The Women, Action and the Media (WAM) activist group announced on Friday a collaboration with Twitter to address online harassment of women, which it claims has “reached crisis levels”. The group, concerned…
Video games, Jane Austen, and a Welsh footballer: it might seem these three have nothing in common, but all have been the basis for online abuse targeted specifically at women. Of course, both men and…
There is a vocal minority on social media that use the platforms to attack others, often with impunity. These cyber bullies or online trolls, use words and in some cases other means to cause harm – for…
The latest National Community Attitudes Survey on Violence against Women (NCAS), released today, shows that most measures of community understanding and attitudes on violence against women have not improved…
The life sciences have come under fire recently with a study published in PLOS ONE that investigated the level of sexual harassment and sexual assault of trainees in academic fieldwork environments. The…
Ever since the coup in Egypt last July, university students have been at the forefront of battling military rule. A surge in anti-coup protests by students in the last two months demonstrates that they…
Many colleagues and friends have asked me about the surge and intensity of sexual harassment in Egypt, which has already received plenty of attention within academia and the international media. They ask…
The Liberal Democrats are in trouble. The party appears to be engaged in a very public form of hari-kiri, accelerating its own political meltdown. The heady days of 23% polling and Cleggmania in 2010 seem…
A few years ago I conducted a feminist analysis of the Liberal Democrats as my PhD thesis. During the research, people (both inside and outside of the party) would often say my project was “a bit niche…
Martin Luther King said, “On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, ‘Is it safe?’ Expediency asks the question, ‘Is it politic?’ And Vanity comes along and asks the question, ‘Is it popular?’ But…
Violence against female protesters was a terrifying hallmark of the unrest that led to the fall of the Morsi government. Local NGOs documented more than 100 reports of sexual violence, including rape…
“Slut shaming” may be the latest cause célèbre to sweep to our shores, but it just looks a lot like old-fashioned misogyny. From the US-based Salon and The Guardian in the UK, to the Canberra Times in…
People imagine they would assert themselves strongly against sexual harassment but are more likely to react passively when confronted with it in real life, a US study has found. The gap between how people…
The most common workplace consequence of sexual harassment is the loss of the complainants’ job, a study from the University…
Both men and women workers who are at risk of sexual harassment on the job are paid more for exposure to that risk, according…
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Associate Professor of Law, University of Oregon
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Associate Professor in Criminology, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, Family and Sexual Violence, RMIT University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Director, XYX Lab, and Associate Professor, Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, Monash University
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Lecturer in Journalism, City St George's, University of London
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney
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Canada Research Chair in Inequality and Gender, Western University
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University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor of Psychology, Women's & Gender Studies, and Management & Organizations, University of Michigan
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Program Director & Associate Professor of Industrial-Organizational and Applied Health Psychology, Adler University
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Associate Professor in Criminal Law, Durham University
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Professor, Yale University
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Honorary Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer in Criminology, University of Plymouth
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Professor of Work and Organisation, Queensland University of Technology
