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Sex Discrimination Act 1984 (Cth) s 28A.
Sex Discrimination Act 1984 (Cth) pt II div 3.
International Labour Organization, ‘Non-Standard
Forms of Employment’, Web Page (2019) <www.ilo.org/
global/topics/non-standard-employment/lang--en/
index.htm>.
Deloitte Access Economics, The Economic Costs of Sexual
Harassment in the Workplace (Final Report, February
2019) 5.
Australian Human Rights Commission, Everyone’s
Business: Fourth National Survey on Sexual Harassment in
Australian Workplaces (2018) 26.
Australian Human Rights Commission, Everyone’s
Business: Fourth National Survey on Sexual Harassment in
Australian Workplaces (2018) 26.
Australian Human Rights Commission, Everyone’s
Business: Fourth National Survey on Sexual Harassment in
Australian Workplaces (2018) 40.
See, eg, Individual, Submission 133, Sexual Harassment
Inquiry; Individual, Submission 231, Sexual Harassment
Inquiry, 2; Diversity Council Australia, Submission 282,
Sexual Harassment Inquiry, 10.
Individual, Submission 241, Sexual Harassment Inquiry,
1–3; Individual, Submission 163, Sexual Harassment
Inquiry, 1; Individual, Submission 235, Sexual
Harassment Inquiry.
Caxton Legal Centre, Submission 382, Sexual
Harassment Inquiry, 2.
Australian Human Rights Commission, Everyone’s
Business: Fourth National Survey on Sexual Harassment in
Australian Workplaces (2018) 41.
Australian Human Rights Commission, Everyone’s
Business: Fourth National Survey on Sexual Harassment in
Australian Workplaces (2018) 46.
Australian Human Rights Commission, Everyone’s
Business: Fourth National Survey on Sexual Harassment in
Australian Workplaces (2018) 47.
Kim Webster and Michael Flood, Framework
Foundations 1: A Review of the Evidence on Correlates of
Violence Against Women and What Works to Prevent It
(companion document to Change the Story: A Shared
Framework for the Primary Prevention of Violence
against Women and their Children in Australia, Our
Watch, Australia’s National Research Organisation
for Women’s Safety (ANROWS) and Victorian Health
Promotion Foundation (VicHealth), 2015) 15, 21.
Our Watch, Australia’s National Research Organisation
for Women’s Safety (ANROWS) and the Victorian
Health Promotion Foundation (VicHealth), Change the
Story: A Shared Framework for the Primary Prevention of
Violence Against Women and their Children in Australia
(2015) 61.
Submissions highlighting the need for an intersectional
lens or approach to sexual harassment are too many
to list exhaustively. See, eg, Individual, Submission
236, Sexual Harassment Inquiry; Office of the eSafety
Commissioner, Submission 253, Sexual Harassment
Inquiry; Women NSW, Submission 268, Sexual
Harassment Inquiry; Springvale Monash Legal Service,
Submission 278, Sexual Harassment Inquiry; Diversity
Council Australia, Submission 282, Sexual Harassment
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Inquiry; Women’s Health East, Submission 286, Sexual
Harassment Inquiry; Women with Disabilities Victoria,
Submission 312, Sexual Harassment Inquiry; Science
& Technology Australia, Submission 327, Sexual
Harassment Inquiry; Victorian Equal Opportunity &
Human Rights Commission, Submission 372, Sexual
Harassment Inquiry.
Louise F Fitzgerald et al, ‘Antecedents and
Consequences of Sexual Harassment in Organizations:
A Test of an Integrated Model’ (1997) 82(4) Journal
of Applied Psychology 578, 579. For evidence on the
relationship between organisational climate and
workplace sexual harassment see, eg, Fitzgerald
et al; Chelsea R Willness, Piers Steel and Kibeom
Lee, ‘A Meta-Analysis of the Antecedents and
Consequences of Workplace Sexual Harassment’
(2007) 60(1) Personnel Psychology 127, 143; Louise
F Fitzgerald and Lilia M Cortina, ‘Sexual Harassment
in Work Organizations: A View From the 21st Century’
in Cheryl B Travis and Jacquelyn W White (eds), APA
Handbook of the Psychology of Women, Volume 2:
Perspectives on Women’s Private and Public Lives (APA
Handbooks in Psychology Series, 2018) 215, 219;
Paula A Johnson, Sheila E Widnall, and Frazier F Benya
(eds), Sexual Harassment of Women: Climate, Culture,
and Consequences in Academic Sciences, Engineering,
and Medicine (Committee on the Impacts of Sexual
Harassment in Academia and Committee on Women
in Science, Engineering, and Medicine, Policy and
Global Affairs, The National Academies of Sciences,
Engineering, and Medicine, 2018) 47.
Australian Human Rights Commission, Everyone’s
Business: Fourth National Survey on Sexual Harassment
in Australian Workplaces (2018) 24. In total, 43% of
respondents said they were sexually harassed when
provided with a simple legal definition of sexual
harassment; however, a much larger proportion (71%)
of people then went on to say they had experienced
one or more of 16 behaviours that would likely amount
to sexual harassment.
See, eg, the following submissions from organisations:
Law Council of Australia, Submission 249, Sexual
Harassment Inquiry, 67; Victorian Women Lawyers,
Submission 337, Sexual Harassment Inquiry, 6–7;
Victorian Trades Hall Council, Submission 329, Sexual
Harassment Inquiry, 12; Prof P McDonald and Prof
S Charlesworth, Submission 170, Sexual Harassment
Inquiry, 9; Diversity Council Australia, Submission 282,
Sexual Harassment Inquiry, 27.
Australian Human Rights Commission, Everyone’s
Business: Fourth National Survey on Sexual Harassment in
Australian Workplaces (2018) 27.
Australian Human Rights Commission, Everyone’s
Business: Fourth National Survey on Sexual Harassment in
Australian Workplaces (2018) 28.
Australian Human Rights Commission, Everyone’s
Business: Fourth National Survey on Sexual Harassment in
Australian Workplaces (2018) 28.
Marian Baird et al, Women and the Future of Work
(Report 1 of the Australian Women’s Working Futures
Project, 2018) 92.
Respect@Work: National Inquiry into Sexual Harassment in Australian Workplaces • 2020 • 61