Non-Physical and Ambient Sexual Harassment of Women Undergraduate University Students in Canada

A Diary Study

Bibliographic Data

ID12437294
AuthorsKyle Albert (0000-0002-0029-0189, University of Victoria, corresponding author), Amanda Couture‐carron (0000-0003-3643-9296, Rowan University, Glassboro, USA), Erik Schneiderhan (University of Toronto Mississauga, Mississauga, Canada)
Year2023
Volume30
Issue9
Pages2345-2370
Publication date2023-01-30
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueViolence Against Women (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1077-8012 • E-ISSN: 1552-8448
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/10778012231153369
PMID36714976
OpenAlexW4318474705
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited37

Using a 60-day daily e-diary tool, 117 women undergraduate students reported sexual harassment on a Canadian university campus (4,283 diary surveys, collectively). Participants reported 181 incidents of both ambient sexual harassment ( witnessing 40 incidents , hearing 106 unwelcomed sexual jokes/remarks) and targeted personal experiences of non-physical sexual harassment (35 incidents). Qualitative data document students' descriptions of these encounters and contextualize how these are part of everyday student life. Findings show that students experience this harassment almost daily-in an ongoing, persistent, and normalized way-and that university can be a hostile environment where the possibility of daily unwanted sexual experiences is a lived, endemic reality

Harassment · Medical emergency · Poison control · Qualitative research · Sexual assault · Sociology · Suicide prevention · University campus · Engineering · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Medicine · Psychology · Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies · Social Psychology · Workplace Violence and Bullying

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