Survey of academic field experiences (SAFE): trainees report harassment and assault.

ABSTRACT: Little is known about the climate of the scientific fieldwork setting as it relates to gendered experiences, sexual harassment, and sexual assault. We conducted an internet-based survey of field scientists (N = 666) to characterize these experiences. Codes of conduct and sexual harassment policies were not regularly encountered by respondents, while harassment and assault were commonly experienced by respondents during trainee career stages. Women trainees were the primary targets; their perpetrators were predominantly senior to them professionally within the research team. Male trainees were more often targeted by their peers at the research site. Few respondents were aware of mechanisms to report incidents; most who did report were unsatisfied with the outcome. These findings suggest tha

SUBMITTER: Clancy KB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4100871 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature