Sexual Violence in Academia: Policy, Theory, and Prevention Considerations

Gialopsos, Brooke Miller

doi:10.1080/15388220.2017.1284467

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“…Supporting our findings, prior research has revealed that graduate students, especially those who belong to marginalized or multiply-marginalized student groups, and/or occupy multiple positions within the university system, are uniquely vulnerable to SVSH. Targeted policy, prevention and services has the potential to have significant and positive outcomes related to preventing SVSH (Gialopsos, 2017); nevertheless, graduate students are not often considered or invited to the "decision-making table" regarding campus-based efforts to address SVSH. Further, the graduate students in our study reported experiences of institutional betrayal (Otsri, 2020;Smith & Freyd, 2013) related to how their experiences of SVSH were handled, namely that their university failed to prevent sexual violence on campus through practices of inaction or omission, is complicit with instances of SVSH, and responds poorly when sexual violence occurs.…”

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Employees, Advisees, and Emerging Scholars: A Qualitative Analysis of Graduate Students' Roles and Experiences of Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment on College Campuses

Bloom

Sorin

Wagman

et al. 2021

Sexuality & Culture

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Sexual violence and sexual harassment (SVSH) are pervasive across university campuses. SVSH research rarely focuses on graduate students, who occupy unique positions within university settings due to their multiple responsibilities (e.g., teaching, research, mentoring), including managing unequal power dynamics with mentors and advisors. As part of a larger qualitative study, we sought to better understand SVSH generally and, when applicable, experiences of SVSH among graduate students on three campuses. Our primary research questions were: (a) How graduate students understand SVSH on their campus and whether they are at risk, (b) How graduate students navigate power dynamics that position them to experience SVSH, and (c) What graduate student-centered solutions and improvements can make campuses safer, more equitable spaces for all students. To answer these questions, we conducted 21 in-depth interviews and 8 focus group discussions with a diverse group of graduate students across various graduate programs. Using grounded theory and implementing student-centered approaches to data collection and analysis, we identified multiple themes, including graduate students’ uncertainty regarding SVSH on campus; and how power relations with faculty, combined with distrust of university processes, keep many graduate students silent about SVSH. Finally, employing graduate students’ suggestions, we offer recommendations for how universities can improve campus climate and SVSH resources for graduate students.

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Employees, Advisees, and Emerging Scholars: A Qualitative Analysis of Graduate Students' Roles and Experiences of Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment on College Campuses

Bloom

Sorin

Wagman

et al. 2021

Sexuality & Culture

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“…However, interestingly, the military has received significant scholarly attention and almost invariable marked as a worst place for this serious problem (Averill et al, 2018;Barth et al, 2016;Kohlman;Taber, 2017). Academia (Gialopsos, 2017;Marshall et al, 2014;Rosenthal et al, 2017) sports organization (Fasting & Sand, 2015;Johansson & Lundqvist, 2017;Syarifah & Sharifah, 2015), theatre (Kleppe & Røyseng, 2016), and newspaper industry (North, 2016) are among the non-traditional work settings where SH found as pervasive.…”

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Sexual Harassment at Workplace: A Systematic Review of Literature

Islam¹,

Raihan

Uddin

2020

business-perspective-review

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Purpose: Globally, sexual harassment is a burgeoning issue, which has been witnessed everywhere. Gripping the gravity of its significance, the present study sets forth to explore the reasons of sexual harassment in organizational settings. Methods: Following the three-stage approach, a systematic review of the available literature was done extensively. A list of 3380 articles published from 2010 to 2019 were derived from widely explored databases, such as Taylor and Francis Online, Science Direct, JSTOR and Emerald Insight. 67 studies were selected from the list based on their relevance and suitability. Results: From the extensive literature review, it is revealed that there are five dominant reasons for the widespread sexual harassment, namely ‘inadequate governmental laws and organizational policies,’ ‘perceptions and attitudes,’ ‘male dominance’, ‘power differentials and organization structure’ and ‘cultural influence’. Implications: To abate its further disastrous consequences, the present research proposes some intervention by linking the current observation with the previous empirical and theoretical studies. Directions for the future research are also provided.

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“…A search in the media archives and a consideration of the campus mobilizations against rape culture in Québec universities lead to the observation that the institutional response has been historically inadequate (Boyle et al, 2017). As summarized in Gialopsos (2017), "To avoid both tarnishing the school's reputation and negatively affecting student enrolment, administrators were often likely to quietly sweep sexual violence under the rug, thereby silencing its victims" (p. 141).…”

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Tackling Rape Culture in Québec Universities: A Network of Feminist Resistance

Ricci

Bergeron

2019

Violence Against Women

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Québec university communities are facing intensified pressure to address the incidence of sexual violence on campus. The ESSIMU ( Enquête Sexualité, Sécurité et Interactions en Milieu Universitaire) survey (2016) revealed that one third of respondents (students and employees from six universities, all genders combined) reported having experienced at least one form of sexual violence since arriving at university, committed by someone affiliated with the same university. As the issue is becoming increasingly institutionalized, a process that often erodes activism, this article highlights the role feminist activism has played in placing sexual violence on university campuses on the political agenda. From the dual perspective of feminist activists and researchers on the ESSIMU team, the article explores the backdrop of this mobilization, and the network of feminist resistance that fostered the ESSIMU study, itself a significant contribution to the increased recognition of sexual violence in universities. It also considers the role of university and government institutions in (re)producing such violence and the role of media in making it a public issue.

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Sexual Violence in Academia: Policy, Theory, and Prevention Considerations

Cited by 20 publications

References 27 publications

Employees, Advisees, and Emerging Scholars: A Qualitative Analysis of Graduate Students' Roles and Experiences of Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment on College Campuses

Employees, Advisees, and Emerging Scholars: A Qualitative Analysis of Graduate Students' Roles and Experiences of Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment on College Campuses

Sexual Harassment at Workplace: A Systematic Review of Literature

Tackling Rape Culture in Québec Universities: A Network of Feminist Resistance

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