De la invisibilización a la impunidad(Des)cifrando la discriminación de género y el acoso sexual en arqueología

Laburpena

This research analyses gender discrimination and sexual harassment in archaeologyin Catalonia and France. Our aim is to move the debate from the personal to thepolitical, to move it from something personal, restricted to a few female archaeologiststo being considered as a wide-ranging social and institutional problem. Theanalysis of the results of our detailed survey points out the current state of this kindof violence and discrimination in both territories. Our findings highlight four mainaspects. Firstly, it indicates that gender discrimination and sexual harassment takeplace in all academic and professional spaces, with a higher incidence in the contextof fieldwork. Secondly, it shows that sexual harassment has a greater impacton young women (in an early stage of their career). Thirdly, it points that almostall perpetrators are men in a higher hierarchical position. And finally, it reveals thatinstitutional responses remain both inappropriate and insufficient.