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UnDisciplined: Rethinking sexual harassment prevention in the workplace

Almost all large organizations — from government entities to universities to private businesses to non-profit organizations — engage in sexual harassment prevention training. And yet the problem persists. So maybe it's time to think differently about what we're doing.

Debbie Dougherty is a professor of communication at the University of Missouri and the author of Sexual Harassment in Organizational Culture.

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