Ladies, it does not seem complicated to me. Don’t show off your body if you don’t want guys staring. I often see professional women wearing ridiculously short skirts and then tugging them down all our therapy session. Don’t wear clothing that sexualizes you if you don’t want that attention. Don’t act and speak in ways that sexualize you if you don’t want that attention.
WP: It’s safe to say that Science Magazine’s career-advice column doesn’t usually scorch up the Internet.
But a well-known molecular biologist and senior faculty member at Caltech touched a raw nerve when a young researcher asked for advice about handling her adviser’s repeated attempts, whenever they met in his office, to peer down her shirt.
“As long as your adviser does not move on to other advances, I suggest you put up with it, with good humor if you can,” wrote Alice Huang, a regular columnist for Science, whose profile says she has always advocated for women in the field.
