New project aims to identify how workplace culture contributes to sexual harassment

Sexual harassment in the workplace continues to be an issue in Australia, with the highest risk industry sectors being information and media.

New project aims to identify how workplace culture contributes to sexual harassment Source: Moment RF / Kseniya Ovchinnikova/Getty Images

Key Points

• A new project at the University of South Australia will aim to identify how workplace culture contributes to rates of sexual harassment.
• The latest data from the Australian Human Rights Commission suggests 1 in 3 people had been sexually harassed at work in the previous 5 years to 2022.
• From the 6th of March 2023, workplace sexual harassment became prohibited under the Fair Work Act.