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Handling of Sexual Harassment Case Poses Larger Questions at Yale
I'm posting this because of 'mild' harassment one of our surgeons does to his residents at work. I had suspicions, but recently found out it's very true. I don't know how far he's gone, the resident who told us laughed it off. This is a powerful man we are talking about. I hope stares and hand caresses was as far as it every got with anybody.
Dr. Simons and the school have their defenders: As word spread last week about The Times’s queries, two women on the faculty at the research center contacted The Times to say that he had been an outstanding leader who had promoted women, and that the accusations had been blown out of proportion.
Since the reduced suspension of Dr. Simons was announced last November, senior women on the faculty and, separately, junior women in the cardiology department had taken their concerns about his expected return in June 2015 to Dr. Salovey, the university president.
In a follow-up letter to the president, the senior women said the climate for women at the medical school had “substantially deteriorated under the current leadership.”
“We expressed concern about the lack of transparency or honesty in the communication announcing Dr. Simons’s leave, and particularly the absence of any suggestion that there had been wrongdoing,” the letter said, referring to their meeting. “The communication could easily have been interpreted as Dr. Simons being awarded a special academic leave relative to some important work.”
Since the reduced suspension of Dr. Simons was announced last November, senior women on the faculty and, separately, junior women in the cardiology department had taken their concerns about his expected return in June 2015 to Dr. Salovey, the university president.
In a follow-up letter to the president, the senior women said the climate for women at the medical school had “substantially deteriorated under the current leadership.”
“We expressed concern about the lack of transparency or honesty in the communication announcing Dr. Simons’s leave, and particularly the absence of any suggestion that there had been wrongdoing,” the letter said, referring to their meeting. “The communication could easily have been interpreted as Dr. Simons being awarded a special academic leave relative to some important work.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/02/us/handling-of-sexual-harassment-case-poses-larger-questions-at-yale.html?_r=0
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