The escalating indifference with which Uber allegedly reacted to a software engineer’s harassment claims is the norm in the corporate world, where enforcing civil rights laws is seen as a tax on profits.
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Preventing sexual violence is everyone’s responsibility, but we need to be careful about how we do it.
Women remain systemically underrepresented at the top levels of Australia’s most powerful institutions – including the media, universities, government, judiciary and corporate sector.
A scholar says bullying prevention programs fail to recognize that sexual harassment could be related to bullying.
Millions of women felt insulted by Donald Trump’s language toward women. Others overlooked it, seeing the female candidate as flawed. Here’s why this might suggest a growing health crisis for women.
Megyn Kelly’s account of Fox News Chief Roger Ailes’ sexually predatory behavior has put harassment back in headlines. Can public debate on this issue make a difference?
Underlying online harassment is the false idea that events that happen on internet aren’t real. But whenever people are interacting, it’s all real.
The ride-sharing app means different things in different countries. In Karachi and Lahore, it has highlighted economic inequalities.
Despite persistent myths that sexual violence and harassment are rare, two recent cases – and the subsequent online response – expose their commonality.
Some teachers are often dismissive in their handling of sexual abuse, labelling it as ‘a bit of fun’ or repeating the old adage ‘it’s because he likes you’.
To say a workplace problem is systemic means that its underlying causes are deeply embedded in the structures and everyday practices of an organisation.
A case in Sydney is the latest instance in which the powers-that-be contribute to the widespread victim-blaming and perpetrator-exonerating in relation to cyber violence against women and girls.
Its formidable chief executive may have resigned, but the US’s most-watched news network is in rude health all the same.
A South African novel, published in 1980 and dealing with the Soweto student uprising four years earlier, still provides lessons for students today.
Sexual harassment is a pernicious problem at universities. But not much is known in South Africa about students sexually harassing academics.
Researchers found over a third of female graduate students and a fifth of male graduate students on the campus of a large public university had experienced sexual harassment.
Most Australian women (87%) have experienced some form of street harassment, whether it’s whistles, stares, unwanted comments or being followed by strangers in the street – often before the age of 18.
North Carolina recently passed a law that prohibits individuals from using a bathroom based on the gender with which they identify. Why does this pose a risk for transgendered individuals?
Flashing in public is illegal, shouldn’t its online equivalent be treated the same way?
The public outing of a number of high profile scientists in sexual harassment cases shows the current system of protecting women isn’t working. But there is a solution.
Top contributors
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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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Director, XYX Lab, and Associate Professor, Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, Monash University
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Professor, Family and Sexual Violence, RMIT University
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Lecturer in Journalism, City, University of London
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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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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Lecturer in Criminology, University of Plymouth
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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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Professor, Yale University
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Honorary Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Program Director & Associate Professor of Industrial-Organizational and Applied Psychology, Adler University
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Professor of Work and Organisation, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate Professor in Criminal Law, Durham University
