From gifted students' exploratory zeal to preventive workshops on sexual inviolability for school peers

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Inspired by the 2017 notorious Hollywood sexual harassment scandal two gifted students from our school (Jazbec and Virant, 2019) decided to make a research project on sexual harassment of women at workplace and subsequently organize psychoeducational workshops for their school peers to raise awareness of this sensitive issue. With their research project they wanted to explore the phenomenon of sexual harassment – how women in our country perceive different types of sexual harassment, how common are different types of sexual harassment, which types of sexual harassment women would likely report to authorities, what cosequences they faced as sexual harassment victims ... They also explored the role of the witness of sexual harassment and attitudes towards sexual objectification of women in the workplace. The evaluation survey of their psychoeducational workshops on sexual harassment showed that their school peers learned a lot of new information about sexual harassment, more specifically most of them noted that sexual harassment of women is common also at worplaces in Slovenia, that they learned about different types of sexual harassment, that they already knew a lot about sexual harassment, that we should talk more about sexual harassment and that they learned about actions you can take against sexual harassment perpetrators.