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Article: Betrayed by the academy: the sexual harassment of women college faculty.
- Article from:
- Journal of Higher Education
- Article date:
- March 1, 1996
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Sexual harassment has long been a hidden problem in society and on college campuses, and one that betrays the idyllic image of faculty and students working together on intellectual endeavors. Writing a decade ago, Dziech and Weiner argued that "higher education faces a problem of epidemic proportions" (1984, p. 15) with regard to sexual harassment. The magnitude of the problem continues to be startling. In reviewing the literature on sexual harassment, Sundt (1994) concluded that nearly one-third of all women college students face sexual harassment each year. Although this statistic does not reveal the nature or the severity of the harassment these women experienced, ...