The gender-sensitive university : A contradiction in terms?
Autor/in:
Drew, Eileen; Canavan, Siobhán
Quelle: Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group (Routledge research in gender and society), 2021. 189 S
Inhalt: "The Gender-Sensitive University explores the prevailing forces that pose obstacles to driving a gender-sensitive university, which include the emergence of far-right movements that seek to subvert advances towards gender equality and managerialism that promotes creeping corporatism. This book demonstrates that awareness of gender equality and gender sensitivity are essential for pulling contemporary academia back from the brink. New forms of leadership are fundamental to reforming our institutions. The concept of a gender-sensitive university requires re-envisioning academia to meet these challenges, as does a different engagement of men and a shift towards fluidity in how gender is formulated and performed. Academia can only be truly gender-sensitive if, learning from the past, it can avoid repeating the same mistakes and addressing existing and new biases. The book chapters analyse these challenges and advocate the possibilities to 'fix it forward' in all areas. Representing ten EU countries and multiple disciplines, contributors to this volume highlight the evidence of persistent gender inequalities in academia, while advocating a blueprint for addressing them. The book will be of interest to a global readership of students, academics, researchers, practitioners, academic and political leaders and policy makers who share an interest in what it takes to establish gender-sensitive universities"--
Herausgeber/in:
D'Cruz, Premilla; Noronha, Ernesto; Caponecchia, Carlo
Quelle: Springer (Handbooks of Workplace Bullying, Emotional Abuse and Harassment, 3), 2021.
Inhalt: The agenda of respectful workplaces is no more urgent than in the context of workplace bullying, emotional abuse and harassment. This becomes even more significant in the face of mistreatment linked to social identity and national culture. The chapters constituting Section 1 speak to the spectrum of primary, secondary and tertiary prevention undertaken within and beyond workplaces to tackle workplace bullying, emotional abuse and harassment. As well as organizational-related mechanisms, therapy, collective action and legislation are described. Normative angles, the challenges of actual practice and the contours of effectiveness are pinpointed. The increasing recognition of the conflation between category-based harassment and workplace bullying and the burgeoning cross-cultural lens of the substantive area are captured through the chapters of Section 2. Identities revolving around gender, sexuality, disability, caste and ethnicity serve as markers for mistreatment, underpinning the need to explore the dynamics of these situations in terms of causes, manifestations and consequences. Variations in the unfolding of negative acts due to cultural influences have been found, emphasizing that though misbehaviour is universal, it has country-specific characteristics.
CEWS Kategorie:Arbeitswelt und Arbeitsmarkt, Sexuelle Belästigung und Gewalt
Dokumenttyp:Sammelwerk
Putting People Down and Pushing Them Out: Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
Autor/in:
Cortina, Lilia M.; Areguin, Maira A.
Quelle: Annu. Rev. Organ. Psychol. Organ. Behav. (Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior), 8 (2021) 1, S 285–309
Inhalt: Sexual harassment was once conceptualized solely as a sexual problem: coercive sexual advances that spring from natural feelings of sexual desire or romance. Research has since shown that by far the most common manifestation of sexual harassment is gender harassment, which has contempt at its core; this conduct aims to put people down and push them out, not pull them into sexual activity. With findings such as these, we have made many strides in the scientific study of sexual harassment. That body of scholarship is the focus of this article, which is organized around the following questions: What is sexual harassment, both behaviorally and legally? How common is this conduct in work organizations, and what are its consequences? What features of the social/organizational context raise the risk for sexual harassment? What are some promising (and not-so-promising) solutions to this pervasive problem? And finally, what are important directions for this area of research moving forward?
Autor/in:
Lipinsky, Anke; Schredl, Claudia; Baumann, Horst; Lomazzi, Vera; Freund, Frederike; Humbert, Anne Laure; Tanwar, Jagriti; Bondestam, Fredrik
Quelle: UniSAFE - Gender-based violence and institutional responses: Building a knowledge base and operational tools to make universities and research organisations safe; , 2021.
Inhalt: The questionnaire will be used to collect data from staff and students on prevalence, determinants and consequences of gender-based violence in universities and research organisations. It includes several modules on e.g. prevalence, prevention, policies, and partnerships, and contains filters to take different study and work environments into consideration.
Geschlechtsspezifische Gewalt in Zeiten der Digitalisierung : Formen und Interventionsstrategien
Herausgeber/in:
bff: Bundesverband Frauenberatungsstellen und Frauennotrufe; Prasad, Nivedita
Quelle: transcript, 2021.
Inhalt: Digitale Gewalt kommt nicht nur im öffentlichen Raum vor, sondern auch in privaten Beziehungen – und hat in Kombination mit häuslicher und sexualisierter Gewalt eine deutlich geschlechtsspezifische Komponente. Durch Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien haben Gewaltformen wie Doxing, Stalking, Hate Speech und Online-Belästigung und -Bedrohung stark zugenommen und durch die Nutzung des Internets ihre Wirkmächtigkeit verstärkt.
Die Beiträger*innen des Bandes liefern für den Umgang mit diesen Gewaltformen grundlegende interdisziplinäre Analysen und diskutieren sowohl juristische, technische und aktivistische Interventionen als auch Erfahrungen aus der Beratungspraxis. Dabei werden zentrale politische Änderungsbedarfe ausgemacht und entsprechende Handlungsoptionen aufgezeigt.
Schlagwörter:bullying; Digitale Gewalt; Digitalisierung; discrimination; Diskriminierung; Gewaltforschung; hate speech; Intervention; Machtgefälle; violence; violence-prevention and control
CEWS Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Sexuelle Belästigung und Gewalt
Inhalt: Mehr als die Hälfte (58,9 %) aller Medizinstudierenden in Münster sind sexueller Belästigung in ihrer Ausbildung ausgesetzt gewesen. Zu diesem Ergebnis kam eine umfragenbasierte Studie einer Arbeitsgruppe an der medizinischen Fakultät der WWU Münster. Die Studie, welche auf einer anonymen Erhebung aus dem Jahr 2018 aufbaut, beschäftigt sich mit unterschiedlichen Formen der sexuellen Belästigung in der medizinischen Ausbildung gegenüber männlichen und weiblichen Studierenden an der medizinischen Fakultät der WWU Münster.
Background
Assessment of the presence and characteristics of sexual harassment in academic medicine is a global issue. Only limited international data are available so far.
Methods
Aim: To assess the extent of sexual harassment and identify the perpetrators in the student population of the medical school of Münster, Germany.
A survey was undertaken, using the Medical Women’s International Association sexual harassment questionnaire translated into German. The anonymous online questionnaire was sent as a link to all medical undergraduates at Münster Medical School via a mailing list between 1 October and 30 November 2018. Identifying or potentially identifying data were not collected.
Data were analysed by descriptive statistical methods such as categorical variables. Baseline characteristics, e.g. answers by male or female medical students, were correlated with their individual sexual harassment experiences and perpetrator groups by means of univariate analysis.
Results
A total of 2162 medical students were asked to participate, with 623 (28.8%) completing the survey. Sexual harassment is a significant issue among medical students at Münster Medical School with over half (58.9%) of all undergraduates being exposed to sexually harassing behaviour. In total, 31.8% of all participants reported having experienced unwanted physical sexual contact such as unwanted physical touching, with 87.6% of the victims being female. Overall, 41.3% personally experienced verbal sexual harassment of which 87.4% were female. Furthermore, 8.5% of undergraduates faced forced sexual contact such as oral, anal or vaginal penetration, intercourse and rape, with all victims being female. Perpetrators in these cases were mostly male medical superiors (7.0%) and male patients (18.3%). In general, most perpetrators were patients, followed by medical superiors and educators, and less frequently by colleagues.
Conclusions
Sexual harassment in medical education and the medical workplace is a significant problem in a German medical school. Most students experiencing sexual harassment are females. Female students also experience the more serious forms of sexual harassment more often.
Schlagwörter:Befragung; Hochschule; Medizin; quantitative Methode; sexual harassment; Studierende; survey
The Comparative Analysis of Sexual Violence and Harassment at the Piloting Universities of Cyprus and Lithuania
Autor/in:
Šidlauskienė, Virginija; Pocevičienė, Rasa
Quelle: Informacijos mokslai, 92 (2021) , S 90–117
Inhalt: The sociocultural contexts of higher education institutions form the background for gender-based violence in professional structures and environment of academia. The article presents a comparative analysis of sexual violence and the reasons for its (non-)disclosure at the piloting universities in Lithuania and Cyprus. The findings of focus group interviews conducted within the framework of the Ending Sexual Harassment and Violence in Third Level Education (ESHTE) project, co-funded by the European Union, have been summarized in the present research. The focus group participants from each partner university involved university teachers, administrative staff, counselors and university students. The research was conducted during a 3-month period between 2017 and 2018. The main aim was to investigate university staffs’ and students’ experiences in the disclosures of the cases of sexual violence and harassment (SVH) in university environment and campus, as well as their awareness of existing procedures and policies in handling the cases of SVH. The results of this study discovered both universities’ academic and administrative staff and students’ personal experiences, attitudes and beliefs of SVH, as well as any of their suggestions towards the improvement of disclosures of SVH are discussed in the article.
Schlagwörter:academic and administrative staff; comparative research; Cyprus; GBV; geschlechtsbezogene Gewalt; international; Lithuania; sexual violence and harassment (SVH); Student*in; vergleichende Analyse
Inhalt: In this paper, we examine the experiences of female students and academics to understand the factors that underpin the persistence of sexual harassment in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) institutions. We draw on data from interviews and focus group discussions with female students and academics who participated in a study that focuses on gender inequality in science and technology universities in Ethiopia. Drawing on the concept of institutional betrayal, we argue that the high prevalence of sexual harassment in these universities is perpetuated by institutional actions and inactions through which universities fail to proactively prevent and effectively respond to sexual harassment. We suggest efforts to tackle sexual harassment need to focus on proactive and preventive measures that involve revisiting institutional policies and structures. We further suggest that grievance procedures need to be accessible, responsive, trustworthy and supportive.
Protecting the perpetrator: value judgements in US and English university sexual violence cases
Autor/in:
Shannon, Erin R.
Quelle: Gender and Education, (2021) , S 1–17
Inhalt: This paper examines four interviews with student survivors about their experiences of reporting sexual harassment and violence to universities in the United States and England, and their experiences of how their universities protected the perpetrators. Interview participants revealed that their assailants were not held accountable because the university determined they were more valuable than the survivor, whether in terms of the role the assailant occupied or their potential to make an impact in their field. I analyse these instances by combining three theories to show both how power/value relations in the neoliberal university make certain people (in)dispensable, and how these power/value relations are enacted through power dynamics of speech and hearing to protect the more ‘valuable’ party in university sexual violence cases. The article concludes with possible recommendations for structural change.
Schlagwörter:England; Gender; Hochschule; Macht; neoliberal university; neoliberalism; Neoliberalismus; power; sexual harassment; sexual violence; sexualisierte Diskriminierung; sexualisierte Gewalt; Täter; USA
CEWS Kategorie:Studium und Studierende, Sexuelle Belästigung und Gewalt
‘Not even close to enough:’ sexual violence, intersectionality, and the neoliberal university
Autor/in:
Colpitts, Emily M.
Quelle: Gender and Education, (2021) , S 1–16
Inhalt: As universities face unprecedented pressure to respond to sexual violence, this article critically analyses how they engage with intersectionality in their responses. Based on research in the Canadian province of Ontario, I demonstrate that universities’ commitments to intersectionality often fail to translate into practice. This failure results in anti-violence measures that do not address how systems of oppression shape vulnerability and access to support, or how the university is implicated in and constituted through these systems. When commitments to intersectionality are accepted at face value, they enable the university to brand their anti-violence measures as progressive and inclusive without necessarily addressing how sexual violence is produced and sustained through existing institutional power arrangements. As such, rather than celebrating universities for merely referencing intersectionality, I conclude that these commitments must be used to hold them accountable to the transformative work required to eradicate sexual violence on campus.
Schlagwörter:Canada; Hochschule; intersectionality; Intersektionalität; Kanada; neoliberal university; Neoliberalismus; sexual violence; university