True stories












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            Lenka’s story

            Lenka attended a media studies course. During one class, students took turns to play the r
            studio moderator. When it was Lenka’s classmate Jana's turn, the teacher said: „You needn'
            You're so big your assets would take up half the table.“ Lenka was shocked by this, but be

            want to look like a prude, she laughed with the rest of the group. The teacher's comments 
            head, though, and she felt uncomfortable about how she had responded. She realised that sh
            pleased that the teacher had picked on Jana and not on her...


            Martin’s story

            During one anatomy lecture, the lecturer was describing male reproductive organs. As she d
            the students some preserved organs and said to the men in the class: „that's how you'll en
            „look what a man this one was...“


            Ivana’s story
            As usual, after their Tuesday class the whole seminar group went to the café together. Thi

            teacher tagged along with them. During the evening, he turned to Ivana and asked her for h
            Ivana was surprised and didn't know how she could refuse his request quickly and elegantly
            she received a flood of text messages from the teacher, complimenting her and inviting her

            Ivana didn't know how to tell him to stop messaging her. She felt like it would be impolit
            her teacher. And she was afraid he might punish her for it the next time he set a test. So
            neutral replies. Ivana didn't know what to do about the situation. When she told her frien

            they made fun of her and the teacher. The rest of the class had also noticed the teacher's
            now they all thought that Ivana's good results were because of that, and not because she d
            studied for them. Seeing her classmates respond like that bothered Ivana even more than th

            the teacher had to begin with. Eventually she decided to give up that course and avoid the



            Anonymous story
            At one history lecture to a class that was half women, half men, the lecturer was describi
            women fought to get the vote. He commented on the protests that had taken place saying: “F

            off their bras. I wouldn't have minded seeing that. You lads too, right?“



            Anonymous story
            (…) When we finally completed the theoretical part of our final exams, they said to us tha
            surprised them – they weren't expecting such good results from us since we're girls. They 

            go off on maternity leave and won't pursue such serious professional careers in the field,
            so hard on girls in the exams. That made me feel like maybe I wouldn't have passed if I ha
            was humiliating.


            N.B. The stories included in this information happened in real life at Czech universities 
            taken from handbooks What is sexual harassment and how to defend it [ URL "https://gender.

            KGS-11-version1-metodika_pro_studenty_final.pdf"] and Sexual harassment at Universities [ 
            gender.fhs.cuni.cz/KGS-11-version1-metodika_pro______vyucujici_fi.pdf"]