A survey in the UK shows that one in 10 staff at a UK university has experienced sexual violence.
A report shows that sexual harassment has become indigenous to UK universities and colleges, with one in 10 employees saying they have experienced sexual violence in the past five years.
According to the Pak Sahafat news agency, according to a survey of nearly 4,000 employees by the British Association of Universities and Colleges, women were about 2.5 times more likely to be sexually abused than men, while employees with unsafe contracts were people with disabilities. , blacks, Asians, or ethnic and racial minorities were also at greater risk.
Joe Grady, secretary general of the British Association of Universities and Colleges, said there were cultural problems at universities that stemmed from a reluctance to punish criminals for fear of damaging organizational credibility.
He says this is compounded by insecure contracts that make employees unwittingly hesitant to report these behaviors due to anxiety about their job being endangered.
While acknowledging that sexual violence in the workplace is not limited to education, he said there have been setbacks in acknowledging the prevalence of the harassment and the scale of the problem.
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According to him, “Survivors say that managers often ignore those who report sexual violence; Complaints processes are used to defuse claims and non-disclosure agreements to silence them, forcing many to leave their jobs unjustly; “With actions like this, it is not surprising that more than half of them do not report their abuse at all.”
Fifty-five percent of employees surveyed said they did not disclose their experience of sexual violence, which the report defined as any unwanted sexual advancement, from harassing comments and harassment to rape.
Seventy percent said the harassment was a pattern of behavior, not a coincidence.
The report warns that this trend is worrying because over time, a pattern of seemingly small and harmless acts can set the stage for physical forms of sexual violence such as rape.
The Guardian says survivors do not trust the grievance process, and some are concerned about their career consequences.