Scrutable

Allo V Psycho wrote: Tue Feb 08, 2022 5:31 pm Can't go into details, but for work reasons I'm interested in cases where sexism and inappropriate messages were exchanged at senior levels of professional bodies. I'll be researching it through academic approaches, of course, but time is short, and any references to recent or relevant cases that forumites were aware of would be very helpful.

In the spring of 2021, after six bruising weeks of a compliance investigation, senior employees at Axel Springer thought they had defused a crisis.

The German publisher had just reinstated Julian Reichelt as head of Bild, Europe’s top-selling daily newspaper. An external probe by law firm Freshfields found the editor-in-chief had abused his power by promoting and demoting young women he had slept with. Others received unwanted “romantic” messages.

Yet Reichelt had committed no criminal wrongdoing, the law firm found, nor had he broken company rules. Axel Springer told the public that Reichelt had made “mistakes”.

dyqik wrote: Tue Feb 08, 2022 6:12 pm There's an ongoing publicly discussed case at Harvard right now, albeit between a prof. and a student. With the usual signing of letters etc. from academics who should know better defending the prof.

dyqik wrote: Tue Feb 08, 2022 6:12 pm There's an ongoing publicly discussed case at Harvard right now, albeit between a prof. and a student. With the usual signing of letters etc. from academics who should know better defending the prof.

Stephanie wrote: Thu Feb 10, 2022 4:38 pm

dyqik wrote: Tue Feb 08, 2022 6:12 pm There's an ongoing publicly discussed case at Harvard right now, albeit between a prof. and a student. With the usual signing of letters etc. from academics who should know better defending the prof.

Not just one student by the looks of the lawsuit

Allo V Psycho wrote: Tue Feb 08, 2022 5:31 pm Can't go into details, but for work reasons I'm interested in cases where sexism and inappropriate messages were exchanged at senior levels of professional bodies.

warumich wrote: Wed Feb 09, 2022 8:47 pm

dyqik wrote: Tue Feb 08, 2022 6:12 pm There's an ongoing publicly discussed case at Harvard right now, albeit between a prof. and a student. With the usual signing of letters etc. from academics who should know better defending the prof.

Crikey though, some signatories there where I'd have expected much, much better judgement. I hear a lot of them have backpaddled now, but still.

I was planning to go to a guest lecture by Sheila Jasanoff in Cambridge next month, I've already sorted out the parking and all. But this has turned into a bit of a side-scandal in my discipline, where she is one of the main figures. Mind you, some of the twitter discussions are also disheartening, those where people discovered that there's three Jasanoffs in the list and therefore automatically assume there's nepotism in the appointments - there may well be but the implication that Sheila - or her daughter - wouldn't have gotten the job without this is a bit off. Sheila Jasanoff is one of the most intimidating clever people in my field, she doesn’t need nepotism.

And Michele Lamont there as well, seriously. She wrote a whole book about analysing academic judgement!