Presented by Lilia Cortina, Ph.D., University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor of Psychology, Women’s and Gender Studies, and Management and Organizations at the University of Michigan.
Academia should lead and inspire change in other industries. Instead, we have the highest rate of sexual harassment outside the military. But what does sexual harassment mean? What actions “count” as sexual harassment, and what might we be missing?
Dr. Cortina will discuss the focus areas of a 2018 report published by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine that unpacks several decades of sexual harassment research. This presentation will cover key conclusions from that report, and key action steps that followed.
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About Lilia Cortina
Lilia Cortina, Ph.D., is the University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor of Psychology, Women’s and Gender Studies, and Management and Organizations at the University of Michigan. An organizational psychologist, she investigates workplace experiences of harassment and incivility. To date, Dr. Cortina has published over 100 scientific works on these topics. This research has won awards, but its impact stretches beyond the walls of the academy. For instance, Cortina is regularly called to serve as an expert witness, translating findings from social science to inform policy and legal
decision-making. She recently joined colleagues in co-authoring a landmark report on sexual harassment for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.