Sexual Harassment in the Academy: What I Tell Reporters

In today’s post I talk about sexual harassment in the academy, the #MeTooPhD hashtag I created, and the Sexual Harassment in the Academy Crowdsource Survey that I launched two years ago that has 2500 entries. This post is prompted by my conversation with a Washington Post reporter yesterday, who asked for an interview for a new breaking case that he’s covering. He’s the same reporter I spoke to when the survey was going viral and getting lots of media coverage, and I decided it might be a good time to share with you all just what it is I tell reporters when they ask me why sexual harassment is so endemic to academic settings.

I apologize that the video is in two parts. The learning curve to switching to video format is steep, and unfortunately today I learned that my iphone storage was totally full, and so my videos kept quitting midway. I did delete a ton of stuff, and now things seem fine. Thanks for bearing with me while I master the technology!

Here is the link to the Sexual Harassment in the Academy Crowdsource Survey page on the blog.

Check this page (scroll down midway) for the many many interviews I have done on this subject.

Here is information on Prof. Kate Clancy’s work on sexual harassment in the academy, that I mention.

Here is information on Dr. Julie Libarkin’s database of sexual harassers, which I mention, although not by name.

Part I: