“In the past, a lot has focused on raising awareness on what bias and sexual harassment looks like, but we know that’s not enough,” says Stephanie Goodwin, a social psychologist at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. The #MeToo movement has highlighted the inadequacy of many mandatory training programmes intended to prevent sexual harassment. It has also raised awareness of institutional hurdles that hinder reporting and allow harassers to remain in the workplace.
A gradual shift towards new behavioural norms can be more effective than singling individuals out as perpetrators — accusations that might be met with denials and hostility. Billy Williams, executive vice-president of diversity, equity and inclusion at the American Geophysical Union in Washington DC, says that most people are well intentioned and genuinely might not know that their behaviour is offensive.
Jacobs and her colleagues have developed a training module for medical students that contains different sets of steps for bystanders, targets and microaggressors. Instead of immediately denouncing the offender as racist, sexist or homophobic, she says, bystanders and targets should start a dialogue by directly asking them what was meant by their comment. Doing this “allows people to maintain their reputations and helps to build allyship,” she says. .
Hart and Morales point out that most men are not harassers and want to help create a welcoming atmosphere for everyone. Engaging this majority as bystanders sends a stronger message to the few offenders that their behaviour is offensive to everyone, and not just to women or marginalized groups, they add. The WISEGuys’ programme comprises four workshops, each involving different scenarios and different power dynamics between perpetrator, target and bystander.ADVANCEGeo takes a similar approach.
Williams estimates that the workshops have been held more than 75 times at US institutions and conferences, with nearly 400 participants in total. His team includes a group of social scientists who are collecting data about trainees’ attitudes and about how ready they feel to intervene before and after training.Universities are hierarchical structures in which junior scientists’ careers can be highly dependent on their relationships with their supervisors.
Loving each other and accepting every one is so much easier than hate, why is hate chosen? Sending love to everyone 💗
What does this have to do with science?
she is not queer, she is ugly.
wtf is a queer person? why do you defecate in science and reason?
Wow nature? You need to find more pictures of animals not tinker with peoples emotions.
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