{"id":17666,"date":"2013-08-15T10:30:14","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T08:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/?p=17666"},"modified":"2013-08-21T12:48:45","modified_gmt":"2013-08-21T10:48:45","slug":"report-shows-spread-of-misogyny-and-sexism-within-debating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.achteminute.de\/en\/20130815\/report-shows-spread-of-misogyny-and-sexism-within-debating\/","title":{"rendered":"Report shows spread of Misogyny and Sexism within Debating"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Front page of the report<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

During the Glasgow Ancients Final the Team of Opening Government, defending the motion “This House Regrets the Centralization of Religion”, was booed and “shame”-d by male debaters in the audience, adding to the list of problematic remarks on women in the Glasgow Debating Union observed during the weekend. Achte Minute documented parts of the debate in\u00a0an article<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now one of the victims of this incident,\u00a0Rebecca Meredith<\/strong>\u00a0published together with\u00a0Matt Hezell<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Clara<\/strong>\u00a0Spera\u00a0<\/strong>a\u00a0report<\/a>,\u00a0<\/strong>that shows the spread of misogyny and sexisim within debating. The report collects contributions from a\u00a0survey<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0started after the final of the Glasgow Ancients 2013 in march. 201 respondents took part in the survey (of which 127 identified themselves as female, 72 identified themselves as male and 3 identified themselves outwith a binary gender description). The report is split into 9 sections. These have been formed around the main issues which respondents raised in the survey.<\/p>\n

A brief summary of the main findings:<\/p>\n

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  1. The first section deals with what the authors of this report deem to be sexual assault or harassment \u2013 groping, sexual harassment or non-consensual physical intimacy. There were 11 reported incidents of this type.<\/li>\n
  2. The second section discusses sexism based around dress, physical appearance and attractiveness. There were 59 separate reported incidents of this type.<\/li>\n
  3. The third section will deal with \u2018speaking style\u2019 and references to the rhetorical style of female debaters with reference to their sex. There were 48 separate incidents of this type recorded.<\/li>\n
  4. The fourth section will deal with the propensity for sexist comments or behaviour to arise which targets a female debater\u2019s sex life; of which there were 47 incidents.<\/li>\n
  5. The fifth section will refer to debating topics and sexism; of which there were 34 descriptions.<\/li>\n
  6. The\u00a0 sixth section\u00a0 will\u00a0 examine\u00a0 the\u00a0 \u2018social\u2019\u00a0 aspect\u00a0 of\u00a0 debating,\u00a0 including\u00a0 social\u00a0 groupings\u00a0 and\u00a0 female\u00a0 freshers.\u00a0 There\u00a0 were\u00a0 48 references to this type of behaviour in the report.<\/li>\n
  7. The seventh section of the report looks specifically at the issue of equity and the lack of reporting of sexism when it occurs. This was 2 a concern highlighted by 38 respondents.<\/li>\n
  8. The eighth section deals with claims of misandry from male respondents, of which there were 5 reports.<\/li>\n
  9. The ninth section of the report will look at suggested methods of tackling sexism as suggested by the survey\u2019s respondents. The final section will be a breakdown of the purely quantitative data in the survey.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The events of the Glasgow Ancients were picked up by a number of media oulets such as\u00a0The Telegraph<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0The Huffington Post (UK)<\/a>,\u00a0The Spectator<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0The New Statesman<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong>At the same time Germany was also debating about sexisim after Laura Himmelreich published a portait (“Der Herrenwitz”) about Liberal Democrat and federal minister of economics and technology Rainer Br\u00fcderle, accusing him of inappropiate sexual advances.<\/p>\n

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