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1.3 Organisations’ Harassment Policies & Procedures

Latest Data: 2020

This page reviews organisations’ policies and procedures relating to harassment and gender pay gap reporting.

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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
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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