, compromising the vitality of these critical contingents of the professional workforce."
Of the individuals who identify as LGBTQ+, 13% reported experiencing sexual harassment while using social media professionally vs. 2.5% of those who identify as cisgender or heterosexual. In addition, respondents with races and ethnicities underrepresented in medicine rated the diversity climate more negatively than white respondents and reported certain forms of cyber incivility and racist comments when using social media professionally.
Together, these results suggest an ongoing need for specific interventions to transform culture in academic medicine.,"The highest rates of sexual harassment occur in organizations that are perceived to tolerate such behavior. Organizations that proactively develop, disseminate and enforce sexual harassment policies are least likely to harbor such behaviors."
"These efforts must go beyond formalistic and symbolic legal compliance to engage workers from the ground up and leaders from the top down to ensure meaningful culture change. Opportunities to share organizational wins andabound, including the NASEM's Action Collaborative, the Association of American Medical Colleges' Group on Women in Medicine and Sciences, and myriad others in professional specialty societies.