Sexual harassment: A critical leadership issue
Efforts to increase the representation of women at all levels of our organisations have helped to raise standards of behaviour, prevent sexual harassment and ensure more effective responses. However, even in female-dominated and gender-balanced sectors and organisations, harassment still occurs, underpinned by power dynamics that serve to target and subjugate others.
A continued focus on advancing more and diverse women into leadership and other disruptive actions to reduce gender inequality will help to shift cultures that enable sexual harassment to occur.
This guide looks at gender equality strategies to reduce the incidence of sexual harassment and includes 10 principles for executive teams and boards, an example leadership statement and guidelines on board reporting on sexual harassment.