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Tag Archive: gender harassment

House Passes CRA-Endorsed Bill to Combat Sexual Harassment in the Sciences

July 25, 2019/In: Policy, Research, STEM /by Brian Mosley

On July 23rd, the House passed by voice-vote H.R.36, The Combating Sexual Harassment In Science Act of 2019, which aims to advance efforts to decrease the prevalence of sexual and gender harassment in the STEM research fields.

“This Is a Moral Issue”: Hearing Calls Attention to Sexual Harassment in Science

June 19, 2019/In: Diversity in Computing, People, STEM /by Brian Mosley

On Wednesday, June 12 the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee convened a hearing, titled Combating Sexual Harassment in Science, to explore what the federal research agencies are, and are not, doing to confront sexual and gender harassment in the Federal research community. The committee received important insights regarding the measures that have been implemented across different Federal agencies and research fields. Though the committee agreed that the agencies need to do more to confront this issue, there was not a consensus on specific policies Congress wants to see.