Inhalt: This research review has five chapters with slightly differing structures depending on the research presented. The first three chapters aim to describe the international research into the most common aspects of sexual harassment prevention efforts, i.e. policy, education and training, and complaint handling and support structures. The fourth chapter looks at the more recent area of bystanders, and the report ends with a chapter on organisations and leadership.
Policy: Research shows that for policy to be applied and serve a purpose, efforts need to take on the culture of academia, be based on lived experiences of harassment, place sexual harassment in a context, and be combined with knowledge, a mandate to act, resources and active case management, in accord with continuing education and training and communication initiatives. This research review gives a general picture that there is an established discourse concerning why a policy to prevent sexual harassment or something equivalent should exist, what it should contain, and how it should be implemented. At the same time, it appears that a bureaucratically legitimised policy process that implements the efforts that are expected by the legal
frameworks do not have an impact on under-reporting, nor do they reduce
the incidence of sexual harassment, or lead to a greater rate of reporting.
Education and training: Education and training also appears in the material as a common measure for preventing sexual harassment, while the gap
between having knowledge of what sexual harassment is and acting in a different way (the knowing-doing gap) is significant. In the planning, design and
content of training initiatives, the specific conditions for preventing sexual
harassment that exist within the organisation ought to be taken into account,
such as the organisation’s active and passive resistance to change in general, and knowledge about violence and forms of harassment in the organisation more specifically. The support of senior management, a well-developed
organisation for preventive efforts and their associated training efforts, and
the active participation of other managers in preventive efforts have emerged
as key to how well training initiatives work.
Complaint handling and support structures: Effective complaint handling and support structures are fundamental in victims of sexual harass
Schlagwörter:bystander intervention; literature review; Review; sexual harassment; sexuelle Belästigung; Sweden
CEWS Kategorie:Europa und Internationales, Sexuelle Belästigung und Gewalt
Dokumenttyp:Graue Literatur, Bericht