Sexual harassment is rife in the sciences, finds landmark US study

Re:Sexual harassment is rife in the sciences, finds landmark... by RcouF1uZ4gsC on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @04:17PM (#17306573)

The major issue is that in general society values results above all else. As long as you are producing, with few exceptions, your supporters will back you up. Look at Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, Weinstein (until just recently), Roman Polanski for examples.

While I hope the focus and importance that #MeToo has brought to the issue of sexual harassment will be a long term thing, I think human nature being what it is, people will make the right statements while in reality continuing to protect and promote harassers as long as they are producing for them (be they politicians or scientists or engineers).

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Re:Sexual harassment is rife in the sciences, finds landmark... by sp332 on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @05:47PM (#17307272)

I'm not sure that these people care about results that much. Movies with women writers, directors, and leads are setting records. When the abusive men are being protected, women are pushed out even if they would have performed better than the men. I think misogyny is the root cause here, not a focus on results.

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Re:Sexual harassment is rife in the sciences, finds landmark... by cautionarytale on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @04:39PM (#17306728)

Polanski raped a child. That's a whole different level of awful than everything else being discussed here.

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Re:Sexual harassment is rife in the sciences, finds landmark... by RcouF1uZ4gsC on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @05:29PM (#17307125)

Completely agree. But look how much support he maintained in Hollywood, even winning an Oscar for Best Director. The fact that someone who raped a child, can maintain such support should tell us that getting people and institutions to really go after harassers(who while awful are not child rape level of awful) is going to be an uphill battle.

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