Letter of Rec for Research Early Career Grants to Include Sexual Harassment?

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fizzycist: I got what the OP said. Please reread my comments. I was trying to help the victim (hoping the OP would convey my message to her) and encourage her to advocate for herself and file Title IX, this is the only way for women to file unwelcome sexual conduct.  The initial wave of METOO didn't cover the academic sexual abuse properly, many female faculty/students were scared to share their stories and kept it as a secret. I just shared what I heard from a female faculty during the post-METOO movement and it was only one example!

BTW what is meant by "you are at a small isolated institution and do not browse through academic twitter?"  ---are you trying to be too silly?!

Anyway for your kind info, I am in a STRONG R1 University and active in social media, as well! 

Have a blessed weekend.

[Ruralguy]

I think the real issue is that many people would like to mention it, but only if helpful. Because they realize it wouldn't be helpful, they say not to mention it. Perhaps even more, probably more, say not to mention it because it's irrelevant to the core science. So, you are left with very few, if any, saying to mention it in some way regardless of any other factors.

So, OP, be helpful and supportive to your friend in other ways. Having someone mention the harassment in a support letter likely wouldn't help in the way you think it might.

[fizzycist]

fizzycist: I got what the OP said. Please reread my comments. I was trying to help the victim (hoping the OP would convey my message to her) and encourage her to advocate for herself and file Title IX, this is the only way for women to file unwelcome sexual conduct.  The initial wave of METOO didn't cover the academic sexual abuse properly, many female faculty/students were scared to share their stories and kept it as a secret. I just shared what I heard from a female faculty during the post-METOO movement and it was only one example!

BTW what is meant by "you are at a small isolated institution and do not browse through academic twitter?"  ---are you trying to be too silly?!

Anyway for your kind info, I am in a STRONG R1 University and active in social media, as well!

Have a blessed weekend.

My comment was over the top, sorry to offend you. Let me try again.

There are a number of expert resources for this victim to go to for help on the general topic of reporting and recovery. Your advice, while well intentioned, sounds to me to be a bit uninformed (Title IX is not the only solution) and is probably not welcome (assuming you, yourself are not a survivor or an expert on the topic?).

The OP is asking for advice on a specific aspect of CAREER type grantsmanship, you likely have better standing to offer advice on that.

[Ruralguy]

As someone who is part of my school's Title IX team, I feel that I have to say its not a bad place to start, though I can see why not everyone would start there. Strictly interpreted, Title IX only deals with cases that involve a student respondent or student complainant (or both), though many schools have a consistent sexual misconduct policy that deals with non-Title IX misconduct cases in a similar manner to Title IX. In any case, there's usually (or should be) someone you could go to for faculty/staff sexual misconduct cases (that don't involve a student in any way), even if it is somewhat different than Title IX cases.