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What will it take? Promoting cultural change to end sexual harassment
This discussion paper focuses on cultural change needed to end sexual harassment. It offers guidance to policymakers, employers, and universities on how to address this scourge, making sure that the needs of the victim–survivors are at the heart of all efforts.
The publication focuses on five areas of work to achieve lasting cultural change:
- training to dislodge entrenched and discriminatory ideas on gender;
- victim-focused work where victim and survivors lead;
- rational reporting in order to remove judgment, retaliation, ensure victim safety and consequences for abusers;
- zero tolerance against all forms of sexual harassment, both in principle and in practice; and
- collective ownership of the need to change culture and attitudes and to establish common values, including the need for bystanders to intervene.
It includes a chapter on “Law and culture” by Professor Catharine A. MacKinnon, UN Women Advisor for addressing sexual harassment; a review on training by Professor Liz Kelly; and 21 other contributions from the United Nations and beyond, addressing the question of the needed cultural change to end sexual harassment.
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Subject areas:
Ending violence against women and girls
Gender discrimination
Gender equality and inequality
Gender equality and women’s empowerment
Gender power relations
Sexual harassment
Resource type(s):
Discussion papers
UN Women office publishing:
UN Women Headquarters
Publication year
2020
Number of pages
72
Publishing entity/ies:
United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women)