For astronomers repeated sexual harassment

Scientists many sexual harassment cases occurring in American universities attracted the attention of a congressman. Mr Jackie Speier said she would appeal to strengthen the legal development of anti-sex discrimination to address similar problems. However, she advocated solutions - there is still no complete framework - can play to solve the problem of whether the effect is still unknown.

Last week, Speier external display details of the investigation more than a dozen years ago, on the University of Arizona astronomer Timothy Slater cases of sexual harassment, which became the day's headlines.

In 2005, the University of Arizona school management believes Slater alleged sexual harassment, and work environment resulting in an extremely bad influence. Speier disclosed in detail, Slater at work spreading insulting sex joke, visit a strip club at lunch, on the female colleagues insulting comments, and obscenity female students and so on. Although Slater denied some of the details, but still acknowledge the vast majority of them, according to the survey report, Slater consider themselves too "sexual initiative."年 2008, Slater left the University of Arizona and came to the Wyoming State University as director of science education.

Speiers the disclosure of Slater cases occurred in another three months after cases of sexual harassment together university (the University of California at Berkeley astronomer Geoffrey Marcy years on suspicion of sexual harassment of female students accept the school investigation and eventually resigned) exposure, but there is another together campus sexual harassment cases