TY - JOUR
T1 - Gender Harassment at Work and In School
T2 - 2023 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition - The Harbor of Engineering: Education for 130 Years, ASEE 2023
AU - Smith, Tamara Floyd
AU - VanAntwerp, Jennifer J.
AU - Misra, Shruti
AU - Mullen, Alicia
AU - Riskin, Eve A.
AU - Wilson, Denise
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© American Society for Engineering Education, 2023.
PY - 2023/6/25
Y1 - 2023/6/25
N2 - The landscape of sexual harassment has evolved since #MeToo went viral in 2017. Thankfully, more violent and more egregious forms of sexual harassment, including sexual coercion and unwanted sexual attention, have declined. Unfortunately, gender harassment and discrimination appear to have increased in the workplace and schools, including in engineering. Worse, harassment continues to be substantially underreported, especially within engineering. Since the term gender harassment is often confusing and ambiguous, the panel discussion will begin with a short introduction to both sexist and sexual gender harassment, comparing definitions between social science research and U.S. law. The panelists will crystallize these definitions with stories of their own lived experiences. The moderator will then pose questions to the panelists to develop a broad perspective on solutions to gender harassment. This panel discussion emphasizes practical strategies to improve the landscape of gender harassment in engineering work and education. The discussion will be built around a framework drawn from a recent book [1] that explores the current status of sexual harassment in engineering. Our five panelists are a diverse group of women engineers representing multiple sexual orientations, races, and family backgrounds. Our panelists will present their experiences with gender harassment, lessons learned, their responses to the harassment, and paths forward. The panel will emphasize approaches and responses to gender harassment that can be implemented from the bottom up - by individuals or localized peer or work groups - without relying on top leadership in an organization to take the initiative to transform culture or take definitive and proportionate action in response to individual harassment cases.
AB - The landscape of sexual harassment has evolved since #MeToo went viral in 2017. Thankfully, more violent and more egregious forms of sexual harassment, including sexual coercion and unwanted sexual attention, have declined. Unfortunately, gender harassment and discrimination appear to have increased in the workplace and schools, including in engineering. Worse, harassment continues to be substantially underreported, especially within engineering. Since the term gender harassment is often confusing and ambiguous, the panel discussion will begin with a short introduction to both sexist and sexual gender harassment, comparing definitions between social science research and U.S. law. The panelists will crystallize these definitions with stories of their own lived experiences. The moderator will then pose questions to the panelists to develop a broad perspective on solutions to gender harassment. This panel discussion emphasizes practical strategies to improve the landscape of gender harassment in engineering work and education. The discussion will be built around a framework drawn from a recent book [1] that explores the current status of sexual harassment in engineering. Our five panelists are a diverse group of women engineers representing multiple sexual orientations, races, and family backgrounds. Our panelists will present their experiences with gender harassment, lessons learned, their responses to the harassment, and paths forward. The panel will emphasize approaches and responses to gender harassment that can be implemented from the bottom up - by individuals or localized peer or work groups - without relying on top leadership in an organization to take the initiative to transform culture or take definitive and proportionate action in response to individual harassment cases.
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M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85172070464
JO - ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings
JF - ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings
Y2 - 25 June 2023 through 28 June 2023
ER -