The act of harassment and bullying is a very real and serious concern in workplaces across the country, and according to a study by members of the Centre for Work, Organisation and Wellbeing, the same can be said of staff members at Australian universities.
In 2011, Professor Glenda Strachan helped conduct a survey of permanent and fixed-term staff across 19 Australian universities. She found that from the over 22,000 responses, one-quarter of them had experienced harassment or bullying at work in the previous five years, with the women academic staff being the highest rates.
“Thirty five per cent of women academic staff said they had experienced an instance of harassment or bullying in the previous five years in their workplace,” said Professor Strachan.
“Women were more likely to report this than men, by about a ten per cent difference.”
About 40 per cent of those who reported their harassment said they had taken or
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