Posted on 06/23/2018 5:56:28 AM PDT by ETL
A recent report highlights just how prevalent harassment is in academic science
The #MeToo movement has revealed sexual and gender harassment in every corner of American life. Science hasn’t been immune.
High profile cases — such as decades’ worth of complaints against astronomer Geoff Marcy, and allegations that geologist David Marchant verbally and physically abused women scientists in Antarctica — make headlines.
But it is the often underreported gender harassment, both serious and subtle, that contributes most to the scope of the problem. And efforts to recruit more women into scientific fields fall awfully flat when those women end up harassed out of their careers.
A report published on June 12 by the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine offers an exhaustive, 311-page look into just how pervasive the problem really is: More than 50 percent of women in academia say they have experienced sexual harassment.
“I am sure that many were aware of the issue, but were perhaps surprised by the magnitude of the problem,” says Marcia McNutt, president of the National Academy of Sciences.
The report offers a list of recommendations to combat harassment, many of which are focused on changing the culture of science to create an environment where there is more civility and safety.
But when the entire scientific training system is based on huge power imbalances between professors and trainees, creating that environment will involve more than team-building exercises and casual Fridays.
Real change may mean changing everything about the way scientific training works.
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencenews.org ...
That’s right. First draw the curve, then plot the points, then tabulate the data.
“High profile cases — such as decades’ worth of complaints against astronomer Geoff Marcy, and allegations that geologist David Marchant verbally and physically abused women scientists in Antarctica — make headlines.”
Disturbing allegations of sexual harassment in Antarctica leveled at noted scientist
By Meredith Wadman
Oct. 6, 2017
Editor’s note: This article includes crude language and disturbing details.
Boston University (BU) is investigating sexual harassment complaints made against a prominent Antarctic geologist by two of his former graduate students.
The women allege that David Marchant, then an assistant professor, harassed them during different research expeditions starting 2 decades ago, while they were isolated in small groups in the Antarctic.
In supporting documents and interviews, several other women report similar treatment from Marchant in that period.
The first complainant, Jane Willenbring, now an associate professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, part of the University of California, San Diego, alleges that Marchant repeatedly shoved her down a steep slope, pelted her with rocks while she was urinating in the field, called her a “slut” and a “whore,” and urged her to have sex with his brother, who was also on the trip.
The entire issue is not about “science”, and the subset of the issue is about academia and merely does not leave out scientists. The issues of harrassment are social, and cross any social sector you want to look at. So why should “science” change. It shouldn’t and neither is it necessary to “change science”. People have to improve their morality and while many of us would tell people to find G-d, I’d tell them to at least find something else to get their morals straight, if they reject that.
How scientific.
>>Myhre says, “but changing how men behave? That would solve a lot of the problem.””
In the Progressive mind:
A gay is gay because nature tells him/her that they must be.
A tranny is a tranny because nature tells them they must be.
A woman can dress provocatively at work because her nature tells her she must.
But, a straight man needs to change how he behaves to solve a “problem”? This behavior is based on 40,000+ years of well-honed instinct that is based on a biological imperative. It is the exact same instinct that makes a woman want to push her boobs up and out of her dress or wear a thong that clearly separates her butt cheeks, both to give the appearance of fertility and readiness to breed. Humans do not have the sense of smell necessary to know when women are ready to mate, so human males are instinctively aroused visually.
So, if a man leering or making a comment is “harassment”, then every thong, push-up bra, skin-tight shirt, low-cut blouse or dress, etc is also harassment and I would say that nearly 100% of men have experienced that harassment in the workplace.
The solution - burqas for all!
Stupid article. What they are complaining about is the grant structure. Professors don’t control that the schools do.
Plus unless it’s out right discriminatory (putting a male coloeague’s name on a paper rather than the female’s) this is just a matter of women not following their parents advice ( mostly from dad). When someone says something outrageous or rude you in a very loud voice say “ I can’t believe you just asked me that” then say what was said. It embarrasses the fool. If you’re alone you look the yob in the eyes and say “ if you ever do that again I will tear your testicles off and stuff them down your throat” then smile sweetly and walk away
Best rocket scientist I ever knew was a single woman with no children , which by the way used to be the norm.
When I asked her why she never married she said it was all about timing. When she was ready he wasn’t. When he was ready she wasn’t. That’s the way it goes sometimes
All tied to some mental disease no doubt.
LOL!
Equal to the article.
Somehow I don't think Jordan Peterson likes this line of argument...
Yes. So "subtle" that it doesn't exist. That's why it's "underreported."
That's too didactic. It needs to equal whatever it wants to equal. Otherwise you're a racist or a sexist or something ...
Change science? Ok sure
You are amazed easily.
It was mostly a joke, not an attack.
Clutch your pearls elsewhere...
17 is fuzzy. I can mean whatever you want it to. For example, a tiger-stiped panda. I like those.
You well may be right on that last part. However, that is an entirely different issue than living organisms slowly changing into different ones over long periods of time. How life arose from inatimate matter is a profound mystery indeed.
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