Recent actions by departments and scholarly groups to try to end sexual harassment:
American Astronomical Society: Agreed with organizers of an after-hours bar bash traditionally held during the society’s annual meeting to eliminate the event. At the society’s meeting last summer, its president described in a speech what it felt like to be a young woman at the meeting getting romantic attention instead of intellectual attention. She told fellow astronomers: “You are not here to find a date.”
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