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Talking to men in the workplace about sexual assault against women

Bob Pease and J Carlos Velazquez

Published in:
Without consent : confronting adult sexual violence : proceedings of a conference held 27-29 October 1992
Patricia Weiser Easteal (ed)
ISBN 0 642 19390 8 ; ISSN 1034-5086
Canberra : Australian Institute of Criminology, 1993
(AIC Conference Proceedings; no. 20)

Abstract

The authors discuss the need for workplace programs to teach men about sexual harassment and discrimination. They explain how hegemonic masculinity operates within organisations to exclude women or keep them "in their place". Strategies for implementing change draw on Men Against Sexual Assault (MASA)'s anti sexist educational programs. They are based on the assumption that men are more apt to change if encouraged to do so by their male peers.