Female scientists report pervasive gender bias, sexual harassment

[Neil Abramson <nabramso@sfu.ca>]

When I was an affirmative action consultant in the 1980s it was well known that in the federal government a woman who complained would probably win the first time but be judged negatively as a complainer the second time. So you couldn't complain because though you'd often win, then you'd be a sitting duck and everyone would know that.

Do we know for sure that this is not a problem at SFU? I know of more than one very competent woman researcher/teacher consistently denied full prof status in my faculty these last 23 years. But I was not on the relevant TPCs so perhaps I am misinformed.

I imagine the same situation is true for some visible minority men and women.

Regards
Neil Abramson
Beedie

https://www.statnews.com/2016/05/17/sexual-harassment-female-researchers/


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