More Related Content Similar to Sexual Harassment in Academia - NASEM report - Problems in Stanford Biosciences/Genetics (20) 1. “Sexual Harassment of Women: Climate,
Culture, and Consequences in Academic
Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine”
Consensus Study Report published by the National Academies Press (2018)
Talk by: Keyla Badillo Rivera, Julie Baker lab
Stanford Genetics Retreat
September 19th, 2018 in Monterey, CA
Some slides adapted from Carol Muller, Exec. Director, Stanford WISE Ventures
(For full report and list of authors: sites.nationalacademies.org/SHSTUDY)
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2. Goals of this talk
• Make Genetics aware of the Report (and the problem)
• Provide examples of how this happens around us
• Provide action points to begin a culture shift in the
genetics department
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3. Why we should care
• It happens a lot
• It disrupts people’s careers and lives
• Women are often bullied or harassed out of career
pathways in these fields
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4. Why we should care
• It happens a lot
• It disrupts people’s careers and lives
• Women are often bullied pathways in these fields
• We can all do something about it
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5. Sexual harassment is a form of
gender discrimination
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6. Sexual harassment is a form of
gender discrimination
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7. Examples of gender harassment
• Sexually crude terms that denigrate people based on their
gender (e.g. “slut” for female coworker; “pussy” for male)
• Demeaning jokes or comments about women (e.g. “go back
to the kitchen”, “women can’t do math”, etc.)
• Comments that women do not belong in leadership
positions or are not smart enough to succeed in a scientific
career "
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8. Examples of gender harassment
• Sexually crude terms that denigrate people based on their
gender (e.g. “slut” for female coworker; “pussy” for male)
• Demeaning jokes or comments about women (e.g. “go back
to the kitchen”, “women can’t do math”, etc.)
• Comments that women do not belong in leadership
positions or are not smart enough to succeed in a scientific
career "
• Male PI in chemistry told his female
postdoc that "chemistry is a man's world”
and he couldn’t help her much in her job
search because she is a woman
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9. Recent study reveals that students
experience sexual harassment by
faculty/staff in academia
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10. Other relevant results in the report
• Over 50% of women faculty and staff experience
sexual harassment
• Women faculty and staff often experience sexual
harassment from men at lower hierarchical levels
• Women of color experience more harassment (as a
combination of sexual and racial harassment)
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11. Sexual harassment is about power,
not sex, and gender contributes
the most to power dynamics
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12. Stanford Genetics examples
• At undergrad course: professor struggled with with power
point and yelled out loud “this is why we need slaves”
• PI told student he is “wasting his time” on minority outreach
work and should only focus on science
• Internal audit in a lab showed women postdoc earned way
less than men postdoc with same years of experience
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13. Stanford Genetics examples
• “I have been removed from an ongoing project, on
which I was lead analyst, for going on maternity
leave.” –Female postdoc
• “I also have had my ideas stolen by a faculty member
and brought to a male colleague to write up as a
proposal (within my own lab!)” –Female postdoc
• “One-on-one meeting with a lab collaborator and
when he opened his laptop, there was porn”
–Female postdoc
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14. Stanford Genetics examples
• “A male postdoc working on my project repeatedly
tried to kiss and grope me, told me he was in love
with me multiple times, despite repeatedly turning
him down, and twice he showed up at my house
uninvited and tried to get me to let him in (I locked
the door and hid). I was new to the lab and too
scared to say something that might mess up the
project.”
–Female grad student
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15. At Genetics retreat
• “I mentioned that there wasn't a lot of data on my
poster, and the male grad student responded,
"Well, at least you're pretty”…”
–Female grad student
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16. At Genetics retreat
• “A creepy dude at the genetics retreat last year was
trying to take me out but he was old enough to be
my dad and wouldn’t stop emailing me.”
– Female graduate student
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17. At Genetics retreat
• After retreat last year, a male panelist emailed a
female grad student an invitation “to talk about
science”. It turned out to be a date in which he
constantly made degrading comments about her
gender and race.
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19. How can we be #1 in eliminating
sexual harassment from academia?
Current policies do not significantly reduce
sexual harassment (symbolic compliance)
Organizational climate is the greatest predictor
of the occurrence of sexual harassment, and
ameliorating it can prevent people from sexually
harassing others
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20. How to move beyond legal compliance
to address culture and climate
• Clear language and rules against harassment
• Rule enforcement; transparency in reporting on-
going cases and action taken
• Support for the targets (reporting won’t have bad
consequences and action will be taken)
• Active work towards dissolving gender disparities in
academia
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21. The entire academic community is
responsible for reducing sexual harassment
• promoting civil and respectful education, training, and
work environments
• stepping up to confront those whose behaviors and
actions create sexually harassing environments
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