Setting the Context of Equity and Harassment Issues: They Are NOT Only Women’s Issues

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Presidential Session: What Is at Stake? The Impacts of Inequity and Harassment on the Practice of Archaeology" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Social sciences within the United States, like US society in general, are facing serious ramifications regarding issues related to equality and harassment. Gender equity, pay equity, and funding equity are all part of the problems being faced by professionals employed in academic, public, and private sectors. Additionally, harassment in all forms—sexual harassment, gender harassment, and “bullying,” for example—is also encountered throughout the social sciences. As is to be expected, practitioners within the discipline of archaeology are reporting these same issues. No longer can archaeologists presume to adhere to codes of conduct that relate only to responsibilities to the past, but rather archaeologists must recognize their responsibilities to each other as well. This presentation outlines some actions that national and local social science organizations have undertaken in attempts to influence equity and harassment concerns as a means of setting the context for the session.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Presidential Session: What Is at Stake? The Impacts of Inequity and Harassment on the Practice of Archaeology   •
• Society for American Archaeology 86th Annual Meeting, Online (2021)

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Abstract Id(s): 32294