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发帖数: 386 | 1 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.
“We’ve got lots and lots and lots of people having very bad experiences in
the field,” says evolutionary biologist Katie Hinde of Harvard University,
a co-author of the survey.
The idea for the survey arose in 2011 when biological anthropologist Kathryn
Clancy of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, learned that a
friend had been assaulted in the field by a colleague, and a mentor had
convinced her to keep quiet for the sake of his career. Clancy started
posting sexual harassment reports, without identifying details, in a blog
she wrote for Scientific American, and was quickly deluged with accounts of
harassment from fellow researchers.
So Clancy teamed with three of her colleagues, including Hinde, to survey
anthropologists on their fieldwork experiences. In 2013, they reported a
high incidence of sexual harassment in biological anthropology. “It became
really clear that this … wasn’t just an issue that occurred in the past
that had been taken care of,” says biological anthropologist Julienne
Rutherford of the University of Illinois, Chicago, another co-author. They
decided to expand the survey to additional fields.
The team distributed the new survey, which was designed like other surveys
of sexual harassment in the workplace, via e-mail and online social networks
, including Facebook group pages for professional societies. Responses came
in from 666 scientists in 30 nations. About 75% were from the United States
and about 75% were anthropologists and archaeologists, with the rest being
biologists, geologists, and other specialists. The team validated e-mail
addresses to make sure no one submitted a survey twice, and did follow-up
interviews with respondents who indicated a willingness to do so.
In a report today in PLOS ONE, the researchers found that 64% of the survey
respondents had personally experienced sexual harassment, inappropriate or
sexual remarks, or jokes about physical beauty and cognitive sex differences
. More seriously, more than 20% of respondents reported that they had
personally experienced sexual assault, including unwanted physical contact,
sexual advances, or sexual contact. About 22% of that group felt it would be
unsafe to fight back or not give consent when they were sexually assaulted.
Victims were overwhelmingly young: More than 90% of women and 70% of men
who had been harassed or assaulted were students, postdocs, or employees of
lower rank than their assailants. Women were 3.5 times more likely to report
sexual harassment than men and significantly more likely to have
experienced sexual assault. “This is about power dynamics in a permissive
environment,” Clancy says.
Particularly disturbing to the authors was that fewer than half of the
respondents recalled a code of conduct or posted set of rules for behavior
at a field site where they worked. Of those who did report being harassed or
assaulted to their institution (including 36 women and one man), only about
19% said they were satisfied by the outcome of their reporting.
This frequency of harassment is consistent with other studies in the
workplace, including one of medical trainees that found 22% of males and 73%
of females had experienced workplace sexual harassment during medical
school residency. Clancy and her co-authors acknowledge that their sample
might be biased because victims of harassment and assault may be more likely
to respond. But she also notes that some victims told her personally that
it was too difficult emotionally to participate in the survey. “It’s
devastating,” says Clancy, who interviewed 26 respondents in depth. “Some
people were too scared to relive the emotional experience.”
She urges team leaders to recognize that the field is an important place
where scientists can shape the culture of their project and their discipline
. “Scientists are taught about how to do science in terms of research
methodology but they are not taught how to be managers in the field.”
Other senior researchers say the study is a wake-up call. “I’ve heard
anecdotal reports … but there was no way of knowing just how big the
problem is,” says ecologist Meghan Duffy of the University of Michigan, Ann
Arbor. “This study suggests it’s a big problem.”
“This is such a serious issue that it’s really important to bring it out,
” says archaeologist John Yellen, archaeology program director at the
National Science Foundation. Astronomer John Johnson of the Harvard-
Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, agrees: “
We are badly in need of change. How can we encourage little girls to study
science if their future academic careers will be marked by not only the
normal struggles of solving the mysteries of the universe, but also fending
off professors who make unwelcome sexual advances?” | w**********k
发帖数: 386 | 2 中国在这方面一直是与时俱进的。
厦大博导诱奸女生爆料人:已找到开房新证据
7月12日，厦门大学教授、博导吴春明，因被举报有违师德师风，被厦大中止研究生导
师资格。Mitbbs.com
这一切的发端，是6月18日微博“汀洋”发出一篇《考古女学生防“兽”必读》。7月10
日，微博“青春大篷车”在网络上写下“支援汀洋书”，披露吴春明床照。这中间，隔
了将近一个月。Mitbbs.com
最早举报吴春明的“汀洋”，到底是什么人？她和吴春明是什么关系？发生了什么事？
为何她会选择在这个时间点上网发声？Mitbbs.com
昨天，导报记者联系上“汀洋”，进行了一番对话。而自事发后，另一方吴春明从未对
外做出任何解释或声明，导报记者也无法与他取得联系
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【在 w**********k 的大作中提到】
: 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.
: “We’ve got lots and lots and lots of people having very bad experiences in
: the field,” says evolutionary biologist Katie Hinde of Harvard University,
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发帖数: 386 | 3 现在教授 造假，扯淡，忽悠，性骚扰，跟人渣似的。
而流氓坑蒙拐骗赚到钱后，去大会上讲成功心得，跟教授似的。
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University,
【在 w**********k 的大作中提到】
: 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.
: “We’ve got lots and lots and lots of people having very bad experiences in
: the field,” says evolutionary biologist Katie Hinde of Harvard University,
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