Sexual Harassment in the Sciences: A Call to Geoscience Faculty and Researchers to Respond
Sexual Harassment in the Sciences: A Call to Geoscience Faculty and Researchers to Respond
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科学中的性骚扰：呼吁地球科学教师和研究人员做出回应
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10.5408/1089-9995-64.4.255
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2016
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D. Mogk
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K. St John;E. Riggs;D. Mogk
作为地球科学教育工作者，我们专注于教授学生广泛的地球科学主题，并帮助他们发展科学技能。然而，我们也（故意或通过无意识的行为）教专业精神，我们的学生。道德主义植根于道德，并为我们的纪律活动量身定制。我们在教室、田野、实验室和科学会议上的行为方式很大程度上说明了我们是谁，以及我们作为个人和实践社区的价值。作为教育工作者和导师，我们的行为方式以及我们容忍他人的行为方式为我们与之互动的本科生和研究生定下了基调，并成为他们的行为模式。我们提出这些相当有分量的哲学观点，以讨论一个困难的话题：科学领域的性骚扰。解决这一问题的紧迫性是在最近几起在STEM学科中报告的性骚扰/攻击事件（例如，Witze，2015; Balter，2016; Feltman，2016; Harmon，2016;威廉姆斯和Massinger，2016）。更令人不安的是，最近对生命、物理和社会科学学科的学术实地考察经验的调查（Clancy et al.，2014年）显示，64%的受访者（n = 666，78%的女性）报告自己经历过性骚扰（即，不恰当或性言论、关于身体美的评论、认知性别差异或其他此类笑话）和22%的受访者报告自己是性侵犯的受害者（即，身体上的性骚扰，不想要的性接触，或者他们不能或没有同意的性接触，或者觉得反击或不同意不安全的性接触）。这种行为是违法的。这是不可接受的。2016年9月，美国科学促进会（AAAS）、美国地球物理学联合会（AGU）、美国地球科学研究所（AGI）、女性地球科学家协会（AWG）、地球科学女性网络（ESWN）和美国化学学会（ACS）联合举办了一场为期一天的研讨会，主题是“科学中的性骚扰--回应的呼唤”。这个由美国国家科学基金会（NSF）资助的研讨会的目标是制定共同原则，确定资源和最佳做法，以应对校园，实地和科学会议上的性骚扰和基于性别的骚扰的挑战。研讨会是强有力的和翔实的。它汇集了来自学术界、政府和专业协会的60名科学家（其中许多是地球科学家）。性骚扰受害者、法律的专业人员和社会科学研究人员的观点为讨论学术界性骚扰和性侵犯的挑战和潜在对策奠定了基础。我们鼓励您阅读研讨会成果的新闻稿（https：news.agu.org/press-release/ scientific-societies-speak-out-against-sexual-harassment/，and Wendel，2016），以及由AGU开发的关于性骚扰的资源页面（http：//harassment.agu.org/）。最终，研讨会的影响将通过全社区对问题范围的认识以及对以尊重、责任、平等和专业为核心的行为准则的制定和遵守来衡量。作为研讨会的参与者和NAGT的积极成员，我们感到有必要将研讨会上开始的对话扩展到包括NAGT成员，地球科学教育工作者和地球科学教育研究人员。我们的目标是为对话提供起点，我们希望读者能够与他们的同事和学生就科学领域性骚扰的范围，挑战和对策展开对话。为此，我们分享了我们对研讨会要点的思考以及最近研究的结果，这些研究特别引起我们的共鸣，我们认为对地球科学教育和地球科学教育研究人员有影响。…
As geoscience educators we focus on teaching students about a wide range of geoscience topics and helping them develop scientific skills. However, we also (deliberately or through unconscious behavior) teach professionalism to our students. Professionalism is rooted in ethics and tailored to our disciplinary activities. How we behave to each other in the classroom, field, and lab, and at scientific meetings says a lot about who we are and what we value as individuals and as a community of practice. As educators and mentors, how we behave and what behavior we tolerate by others sets a tone and becomes a behavioral model for the undergraduate and graduate students with whom we interact. We raise these rather weighty and philosophical points to frame a discussion on a difficult topic: sexual harassment in the sciences. The urgency of addressing this issue follows several recent high-visibility incidents of sexual harassment/assault reported across the STEM disciplines (e.g., Witze, 2015; Balter, 2016; Feltman, 2016; Harmon, 2016; Williams and Massinger, 2016). More troubling, a recent survey of academic fieldwork experiences from the life, physical, and social sciences disciplines (Clancy et al., 2014) reveals that 64% of respondents (n = 666, 78% women) report personally experiencing sexual harassment (i.e., inappropriate or sexual remarks, comments about physical beauty, cognitive sex differences, or other such jokes) and 22% of the respondents reported being the victim of sexual assault (i.e., physical sexual harassment, unwanted sexual contact, or sexual contact in which they could not or did not give consent, or felt it would be unsafe to fight back or not give consent). This behavior is illegal. It is unacceptable. And this must stop.Community in ActionIn September 2016 the American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS), the American Geophysical Union (AGU), the American Geosciences Institute (AGI), the Association of Women Geoscientists (AWG), the Earth Science Women's Network (ESWN), and the American Chemical Society (ACS) convened a 1-day workshop on Sexual Harassment in the Sciences - A Call to Respond. The goal of this National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded workshop was to generate common principles and identify resources, and best practices to address the challenges of sexual and gender-based harassment on campus, in the field, and at scientific meetings. The workshop was powerful and informative. It brought together 60 scientists (many were geoscientists) from academia, government, and professional societies. Perspectives from victims of sexual harassment, legal professionals, and social science researchers set the stage for discussions on the challenges of, and potential countermeasures to, sexual harassment and assault in academia. We encourage you to read the press releases of the workshop outcomes (https://news.agu.org/press-release/ scientific-societies-speak-out-against-sexual-harassment/, and Wendel, 2016), as well a resource page on sexual harassment (http://harassment.agu.org/) developed by AGU.Ultimately the workshop's impact will be measured by community-wide recognition of the scope of the problem and the development and adherence to a code of behavior that puts respect, responsibility, equality, and professionalism at its core. As participants in the workshop and active members of NAGT we feel compelled to extend the conversation that was started at the workshop to include members of NAGT, geoscience educators, and geoscience education researchers. Our goal is to provide starting points for conversations that we hope readers will initiate with their colleagues and students on the scope, challenges, and countermeasures to sexual harassment in the sciences. To that end, we share our reflections on points from the workshop and results from recent studies that particularly resonated with us and that we think have implications for geoscience education and geoscience education researchers. …