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Impact of a program to diminish gender insensitivity and sexual harassment at a medical school
C D Jacobs1, M R Bergen, D Korn
1Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, CA, USA. cjacobs@stanford.edu
Purpose:
To measure the effect of an intervention to reduce gender insensitivity and sexual harassment at one medical school.
Method:
Stanford University School of Medicine undertook a multifaceted program to educate faculty and students regarding gender issues and to diminish sexual harassment. The authors developed a survey instrument to assess the faculty's perceptions regarding environment (five scales) and incidences of sexual harassment. Faculty were surveyed twice during the interventions (1994 and 1995).
Results:
Between the two years, the authors measured significant improvements in mean ratings for positive climate (p = .004) and cohesion (p = .006) and decreases in the faculty's perceptions of sexual harassment (p = 0006), gender insensitivity (p = .001), and gender discrimination (p = .004). The faculty also reported fewer observations of harassing behavior during the study period.
Conclusions:
An intervention program to diminish gender insensitivity and sexual harassment can measurably improve a medical school's environment.
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