Sexual Harassment in the Academy: From Science to Solutions | Lilia Cortina

Academia should lead and inspire change in other industries. Instead, we have the highest rate of sexual harassment outside the military. But what do we mean by this term? What actions “count” as sexual harassment, and what might we be missing? How does harassment affect work and wellbeing? Several decades of social science have taken up questions such as these. According to that research, sexual harassment is typically a put-down not a come-on. It involves insults, intimidations, and assaults on human dignity. To move the needle on this problem, we need nothing short of a radical redesign of anti-harassment efforts in higher education. This was the focus of a 2018 report published by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. This presentation will cover key conclusions from that report, and key action steps that followed. Speakers: Lilia Cortina - Chair, Gender and Feminist Psychology; University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor of Psy