At this time of a COVID 19 pandemic converging with continuing racial and gender violence, it is imperative that STEMM disrupt gender and intersecting racial harassment to include all talent, if the fields are to realize their promise to contribute to a better future. The core mission of the 127-member Societies Consortium on Sexual Harassment in STEMM couldn’t be more critical than it is now: to advance ethical, professional and inclusive conduct, climate and culture in STEMM societies and fields for their excellence and integrity, by helping to ameliorate harassment and inequities that target gender in all of its intersectionalities, including race. STEMM societies are standard bearers (to model inclusivity in their own operations) and standard setters (defining and recognizing excellence); the Consortium empowers a collective leadership effort to go beyond the law for climate/culture change. The Consoritum's work is on two tracks—inclusive policy foundations to influence conduct change in the short-term and inclusive community building for climate and culture change in the longer term. The Consortium produces customizable model inclusive policies, tools to operationalize the policies and support inclusive practices, and policy/law guidance to advance effective and legally sustainable action. It facilitates experience-sharing and problem-solving among members and others in STEMM fields. Our member-societies—by participating in the Consortium’s collective effort, as well as taking individual action—reflect a powerful message for STEMM fields and benefit from mulitple perspectives and broad experience of the collective. Key work includes: a society and IHE incident information-sharing initiative to help prevent unwitting "passing the harasser"; a case study library to provide guidance on navigating incidents in vulnerable settings to protect students, post-docs and early career professionals; model honors, meetings, virtual meetings, and conduct and investigations policies with associated guidance; compendium of resources; Hot Topics webinars; a roadmap to guide three stages of progress toward inclusion, etc. ACS was one of the 100 inaugural members, serves on the governing Executive Committee, and helped to design and launch the Consortium in late 2018. EducationCounsel, the American Geophysical Union (AGU), American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) co-originated the Consortium.

Sexual Harassment in science: Continuing the conversation, contributions of the societies consortium on sexual harassment in STEMM, a collective leadership effort of 127 societies

ACS Fall 2021

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