Section 2: The current context for this Inquiry
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Art of Mentoring, ‘Cross-Gender Relations in a Post
#MeToo World: Does #MeToo Mean the End of
Mentoring for Women?’, Spotlight on (Web Page, 2019)
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Diversity Council Australia, Submission 282, Sexual
Harassment Inquiry, 34.
Deloitte Access Economics, The Economic Costs of Sexual
Harassment in the Workplace (Final Report, February
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Deloitte Access Economics, The Economic Costs of Sexual
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Deloitte Access Economics, The Economic Costs of Sexual
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Deloitte Access Economics, The Economic Costs of Sexual
Harassment in the Workplace (Final Report, February
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Deloitte Access Economics, The Economic Costs of Sexual
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2019) 52.
Deloitte Access Economics, The Economic Costs of Sexual
Harassment in the Workplace (Final Report, February
2019) 38–42. See especially Table 4.3.
Screen Australia, Submission 239, Sexual Harassment
Inquiry, 3.
For an historical overview of international and regionallevel responses to sexual harassment, see Dierdre
McCann, Sexual Harassment at Work: National and
International Responses (Project Report, International
Labour Organization, 2005).
See, eg, International Development Committee, United
Kingdom House of Commons, Sexual Exploitation and
Abuse in the Aid Sector (Eighth Report of Session 201719, 31 July 2019).
See, eg, Women and Equalities Committee, United
Kingdom House of Commons, Sexual Harassment in
the Workplace (Fifth Report of Session 2017-19, July
2018); United States Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission, ‘Memoranda of Understanding’, Web
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‘Sexism, Harassment and Violence Against Women in
Parliaments in Europe’ (Issues Brief, October 2018);
Keiran Pender, Us Too? Bullying and Sexual Harassment
in the Legal Profession (International Bar Association,
2019); Helen Campbell and Suzi Chinnery, What Works?
Preventing and Responding to Sexual Harassment in the
Workplace: A Rapid Review of Evidence (CARE Australia,
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United Nations, General Assembly, Sexual Exploitation
and Abuse: Implementing a Zero-Tolerance Policy: Report
of the Secretary-General, UN GAOR, 73rd sess, Agenda
Items 132 and 150, UN Doc A/73/744 (14 February
2019).
United Nations, General Assembly, Sexual Exploitation
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and 149, UN Doc A/71/818 (28 February 2017); United
Nations Secretary-General, ‘Zero Tolerance for Sexual
Exploitation and Abuse: Fact Sheet on the Secretary-
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’General’s Initiatives to Prevent and Respond to
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Set World Standard for Preventing Sexual Exploitation,
Abuse, Secretary-General Tells High-Level Meeting’
(Media Release, United Nations Secretary-General, SG/
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Purna Sen et al, Towards an End to Sexual Harassment:
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the Secretary-General’s Circle of Leadership on the
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and Abuse in United Nations Operations’, Preventing
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The Ambassadorial Group of Friends to Eliminate
Sexual Harassment is co-chaired by France, Israel,
Kenya and the Netherlands. See François Delattre,
‘Fight against Sexual Harassment: It’s Time for a
#UNToo Movement’ (Speech, Launch of the Group of
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UN Women and International Labour Organization,
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Purna Sen et al, Towards an End to Sexual Harassment:
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(UN Women, November 2018).