ABSTRACT

The legal mandate to mainstream gender equality in Spain’s universities has led to the establishment of gender equality units and the adoption of gender equality policy plans and protocols against sexual harassment. This research looks at how gender equality policies have been implemented within universities and what resisting and facilitating factors have hindered and promoted their implementation. These questions are addressed by studying the implementation of the ‘Protocol against sexual and sexist harassment’ at the biggest public Spanish university, Madrid Complutense University. Through a combination of content analysis, interviews, and a survey involving the university community, we show how the implementation of university policies against sexual harassment is dependent on a combination of factors against (obstacles/resistances) and in favour (opportunities/alliances). These factors include the form of institutionalization that gender equality took within the university, the existing formal and informal institutions, inertial resistances, and prevailing ideas about gender equality. We argue that implementation of the protocol was impeded by the scant awareness of the prevalence of harassment in daily university life, and the concomitant acceptance, by the academic community, of the phenomenon as a ‘normal’ practice.

摘要

将性别平等纳入西班牙大学主流的法律授权导致设立了性别平等部门，并通过了性别平等政策计划和反对性骚扰的协议。本研究着眼于大学内部如何实施性别平等政策，以及哪些阻力和促进因素阻碍和促进了政策的实施。这些问题通过在西班牙最大的公立大学马德里康普顿斯大学研究“反性骚扰和性别歧视协议”的实施来解决。通过内容分析、访谈和涉及大学社区的调查相结合，我们展示了大学反性骚扰政策的实施如何取决于反对（障碍/阻力）和支持（机会/联盟）的因素的组合。这些因素包括性别平等在大学内采取的制度化形式、现有的正式和非正式机构、惯性阻力以及关于性别平等的流行观念。我们认为，由于对日常大学生活中普遍存在的骚扰缺乏认识，以及学术界同时接受这种现象为“正常”做法，因此该协议的实施受到阻碍。以及关于性别平等的流行观念。我们认为，由于对日常大学生活中普遍存在的骚扰缺乏认识，以及学术界同时接受这种现象为“正常”做法，因此该协议的实施受到阻碍。以及关于性别平等的流行观念。我们认为，由于对日常大学生活中普遍存在的骚扰缺乏认识，以及学术界同时接受这种现象为“正常”做法，因此该协议的实施受到阻碍。