Abstract

FLORES-BERNAL, Raquel del Carmen. Higher Education Policies on Sexual Harassment in Chile. educ.educ. [online]. 2019, vol.22, n.3, pp.343-358. ISSN 0123-1294.  https://doi.org/10.5294/edu.2019.22.3.1.

This research tackles the problem of sexual harassment in Chilean high schools and universities, which proves the need for institutions to take prevention and victim care measures and to carry out actions for its complete eradication. The aim of this study is to discuss the gender ideologies embodied in regulations, protocols and regulations on sexual harassment prevention issued by four Chilean universities. The research method is a documentary analysis, whose objective is to capture, assess, select and encapsulate the underlying messages in the contents of documents by working out their meanings. The main results include the necessity to strengthen free, safe spaces for students and workers and to design strategies to prevent, safeguard and promote respectful and egalitarian relationships in the educational community, such as receiving complaints and conducting investigations.

Keywords : Sexual abuse; sexual harassment; Chile; university education; higher education; behavior manual; educational handbook; educational policy.

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