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Latest Data: 2020
This page reviews organisations’ policies and procedures relating to harassment and gender pay gap reporting.
Highlights
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The majority of organisations responding to Profiling the Profession 2020 have Sexual Harassment policies in place. The majority of archaeologists are employed by organisations that have Sexual Harassment, Training for Dealing with Reports of Sexual Harassment and Gender Pay Gap Reporting policies in place:
Table 1.3.1: Harassment policies by organisation and number of archaeologists employed for 2019-20.
Policy | Organisations | Archaeologists Employed | ||
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Count | Percentage | Count | Percentage | |
Sexual Harassment Policy | 105 | 62% | 2363 | 98% |
No Retaliation Policy | 37 | 22% | 990 | 41% |
Training on Sexual Harassment for all employees | 44 | 26% | 609 | 25% |
Training for dealing with reports of harassment | 77 | 46% | 1822 | 76% |
Gender pay gap reporting | 52 | 31% | 1468 | 61% |
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Impact of Sole Traders
‘As a sole trader I don’t need staff policies…’
– respondent
Sole traders and very small organisations do not have most of the listed policies, or training in those policies, this reduces the appearance of the prevalence of such policies in the sector. Examining responses by the number of archaeologists employed by those organisations presents a picture of how many archaeologists are covered by such policies and training (Figure 1.3.1).
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Clachtoll Iron Age Broch by Landscapes and Aviation. From Flickr CC BY
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CREDITS
Title: Profiling the Profession
2020 Authors: Kenneth Aitchison, Poppy German and Doug Rocks-Macqueen
Published by: Landward Research Ltd
Version Date: 2021
ISBN: 978-0-9572452-8-0
DOI: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.14333387
License: CC BY SA 4.0 for all text and figures. Header images are from different sources check image credits for their specific licensing.
2020 funders: Historic England, with support from Historic Environment Scotland, CIfA and FAME.
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