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16 Dec 2024

Saturday, 14th, December, 2024: Distinguished Prof Kerry Robinson, PhD, 77% of LGBTQ Young People Have Faced Workplace Sexual Harassment

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Janet Jukes and Macca are joined live on air by Distinguished Professor in Sociology, School of Social Sciences, Western Sydney University

Kerry’s research expertise includes: gender and sexuality studies; sexual harassment; gender and sexuality based violence prevention; childhood, young people and sexual citizenship; sexuality education; and diversity and difference in education. Kerry’s recent research includes an Australian Research Council Discovery Project with Professor Susanne Gannon exploring gender equity policies and practices in secondary schools. Kerry is also currently leading a second Australian Research Council Discovery grant investigating gender in early childhood.

In a landmark study of 1,000 LGBTQ young people, Kerry H. Robinson, Western Sydney University; Cristyn Davies, University of Sydney; Emma F Jackson, Australian National University, and Kimberley Allison, Western Sydney University, found many experience threats to “fix” them through sexual violence.

“Unwanted sexual attention and behaviour are a persistent problem in many workplace cultures. But the workplace sexual harassment of LGBTQ employees is often overlooked.

Sexual harassment is generally understood through heterosexuality, in which male bosses target female employees with unwanted sexualised behaviours. This perspective of workplace sexual harassment has been enshrined in film, from 1980’s 9 to 5 to 2019’s Bombshell.

Broad population studies show LGBTQ people experience sexual harassment in the workplace and at education and training institutions at disproportionately higher rates than heterosexual women”.

https://theconversation.com/new-research-77-of-lgbtq-young-people-have-faced-workplace-sexual-harassment-244735

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