Have you ever been made to feel like an\nobject? Have you ever been excluded from a conversation because of your gender?\nHave you ever felt like someone was paying attention to you and it had nothing\nto do with the work you were presenting, but more because of the outfit you had\non?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019s happened to me and I have a feeling I\u2019m\nnot alone. And I never would have called that sexual harassment. I alway\nthought sexual harassment was much more overt. Much more \u201cin your face\u201d kind of\nbehaviors. But in 2018, a landmark report<\/a> by the National Academies of Science,\nEngineering and Medicine revealed that sexual harassment isn\u2019t just about the\novert coercion and unwanted attention, but it\u2019s also gender harassment. What\u2019s\nthat you ask? Those verbal and nonverbal behaviors that make the environment\nfeel hostile\u2026that\u2019s also sexual harassment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Another key feature about the report is how\ncommon sexual harassment occurs. Almost half of medical students report\nexperiencing gender harassment before they even graduate from medical school.\nHow many medical schools include how to deal with sexual and gender harassment\nin their curricula?<\/p>\n\n\n\n So, who can help address the rampant sexual\nand gender harassment in our healthcare workplaces? Who can work as an\nintersectional organization to bring safety, equity and dignity to our\nworkplaces? TIME\u2019S UP Healthcare<\/a> can\u2026that\u2019s who. TIME\u2019S UP Healthcare was founded in 2019 by a\ndiverse group of women across the healthcare fields who are committed to\nworking towards three key principles – safety, equity and dignity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Why those three principles? Safety because you\nshould not have to go to work and be worried about being harassed by your\ncolleagues, your supervisors and depending on your fields, by your patients\ntoo. Equity because how is it possible that there is no field in which women\nphysicians get paid more and why do male nurses make more than female nurses?\nDignity because a woman with agentic traits isn\u2019t likable, whereas a man with\nthe same traits is revered. Dignity because consistent patterns of inequity,\ndiscrimination and harassment take an overwhelming toll on a woman\u2019s mental,\nemotional and physical health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you agree that the time has come to address the lack of safety, equity and dignity in our healthcare workplaces, then join us in saying TIME\u2019S UP Healthcare! <\/p>\n\n\n\n Watch the complete FIX19 talk below!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n