To prevent and more effectively respond to sexual harassment.
Sexual harassment remains a persistent workplace issue.
Sexual harassment report released.
Contribute to improved policy and practice in workplaces.
Identify the impact of sexual harassment on those exposed to it.
Impacts of sexual harassment are wide ranging.
What’s Happening?
About the Project
Despite legal prohibition, sexual harassment is a persistent workplace issue with considerable costs for individuals and organisations. Yet there remain significant gaps in knowledge about effective prevention and responses to the problem. This research project draws on a multi-method approach to investigate the various manifestations of sexual harassment across a range of workplaces contexts. It also examines organisational and institutional understandings and responses to workplace sexual harassment and the longer term impacts for individual ‘targets’. Specifically, the project aims to:
- Better understand the contexts and the factors that shape individual and organisational understandings of sexual harassment as a workplace issue
- Assess the impact of the legal prohibition of workplace sexual harassment on the patterns of conduct which occur and the range of organisational responses to the problem
- Identify the impact of sexual harassment on those exposed to it, including their experiences and responses and longer term employment and wellbeing outcomes
- Contribute to improved policy and practice to prevent and respond to sexual harassment, by workplaces and human rights and other bodies.
