The aim of the SHIFT Gender and Power Relations work is to research cases of sexual harassment and power abuse that have been revealed and discussed in the European arts field in recent years, with a focus on the developments since the #MeToo period. The team of researchers also aims to propose solution-oriented strategies for creating equitable and safe work environments for culture professionals.
IETM is the lead partner of the SHIFT Gender and Power Relations Package. In the framework of SHIFT, we will aim to draw light on solutions and good practices cultural structures, organisations as well as pioneering individuals have developed in the last year to battle sexual harassment and empower those abused. Via qualitative research, mapping and production of a toolkit, the partners aim to provide networks and organisations with useful tools to strengthen their own inner strategies on the matter.
Available resources
#MeToo in the Culture Sector: SHIFT Key Findings
This first document aims to share and put to discussion some first major takeaways from this work, to be presented in an online session on 6 October 2021. It also formulates preliminary recommendations and three major questions aimed to develop a transnational, cross-border perspective as well as possible solutions to combat sexual harassment and power abuse in the European cultural sector.
Read or listen to our SHIFT key findings ->
Newsletter on Gender & Power Relations
Produced by IETM, the fourth SHIFT newsletter focuses on Gender & Power Relations. The newsletter tackles the #METOO movement, gender inequalities and gender-based violence in the workplace, and the urgency for structural changes in the cultural and creative sectors, by providing a set of resources and tools calling for a shift in the sector’s practices.
