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Sexual harassment takes many forms: obscene jokes, comments on appearance, behaviour, sexual advances, staring at someone, whistling, deliberate touching, insistence. Such behaviours can have disastrous consequences for students: loss of confidence in others, depression, isolation…
Harassment can be caused by “any person”, so it can be a co-worker of equal or subordinate level.
The person in a position of power and authority may offer or ask for different sexual counterparts in exchangeof a better grade, a promotion, a recommendation letter, a publication or fundings, etc. Refusal may lead to significant sanctions (exclusion from a work team or from the institution, breach of contract, non-renewal of funding, abandonment of educational follow-up, etc).
While sexual harassment is not systematically male and hetereosexual, it is often perpetrated by well-known men who do not suggest such pratices in their relationship with their students. Victims, most of whom are women, are too often afraid to formally accuse their harasser.
Getting out of this situation
Any aggression creates astonishment, which can take different forms depending on the person or the situation (escape, attack, paralysis, scream, silence…). The first thing to do is to find ways to get out of the state of shock.
Talking about it
Talk to a trusted person: classmate, academic secretary, professor (including referent professor), student association, union, vice-president of student life, vice-president of equality, student vice-president, student life officer …
Outside the university:
At the university:
The CROUS are commited to :
CROUS of Poitiers : 05 49 44 53 42
service.social@crous-poitiers.fr
According to the Article 222-33 of the French Criminal Code: Offences of sexual harassment are punishable by two years’ imprisonment and a fine of € 30,000.
These penalties are increased to three years’ imprisonment and a fine of € 45,000 when the acts are committed:
1° By a person abusing the authority conferred upon them in carrying out their duties;
2° On a minor under fifteen years of age;
3° On a person whose specific vulnerability, due to age, illness, infirmity, physical or psychological disability or pregnancy, is apparent or known to the offender;
4° On a person whose specific vulnerability or dependence resulting from the precariousness of his economic or social situation, is apparent or known to the offender;
5° By more than one person acting as perpetrators and/or accomplices.
Guide in French on “Sexual Harassment in Higher Education and Research” written by the association the CLASCHES (Collectif de Lutte Anti-Sexiste Contre le Harcèlement dans l’Enseignement Supérieur), created in 2003.
Vade-mecum for institutions on “Sexual harassment in higher education and research” written by the ANEF (Association des Etudes Féministes), CLASCHES and CPED.
Crocodile Project: Stories of harassment and ordinary sexism compiled by Thomas Mathieu : http://projetcrocodiles.tumblr.com/
“NON C’EST NON” (No is no). A small Self-defense Manual for all women who are tired of being fucked up without saying a word by Irene Zeilinger, Zones Edition / la découverte.