#WeTooInScience - Sexual Harassment in Higher Education Institutions and Research Organizations

Abstract

This volume presents a series of analyses that range from the presentation of the cognitive framework from the theoretical point of view, to that of the (few) data available. We grouped the themes into four parts: 1. What do we know?; 2. How to address the problem: solutions; 3. How to address the problem: prevention and 4. Wider perspectives. The first part with the contributions of Claudine Hermann, Colette Guillopé, Sylvie Cromer, Ilaria Di Tullio, Francesca Torelli, provides a crosssection of the state of the analyses carried out in Italy and abroad. Knowing the terms of the question and the boundaries of the problem is the preliminary step to find the tools to deal with it and, hopefully, solve it. What solutions can be envisaged? What can be done? In the second part Ann Olivarius, Chiara de Fabritiis and Fernie Maas discuss the issues referring to the different contexts. The third part deals with the question of possible solutions to the problem from the prevention side, such as the development of guidelines and regulations that prevent problems from arising, rather than punish them later. Lorenza Perini, Laura Chlebos, Agata Sangianantoni, Valeria De Paola, Ingrid Hunstad, Maria Luisa Chiofalo and Tiziana Metitieri present some of the possible areas of intervention to avoid repeating episodes that are no longer tolerable. The fourth part collects some contributions of selected authors that widen the perspective between history and discrimination. Mirella Orsi, Anna Lisa Somma, Sona Grigoryan, Antonella Nappi, Federica De Luca, Mariella Paciello, Pietro Greco and Monica Zoppè contributed in this final part. Each section is preceded by an introduction written by one of the curators, Lucia Martinelli, Giuliana Rubbia, Silvana Badaloni and Monica Zoppè, that describes in detail the content of the various contribution.