Workplace sexual harassment in the arts
Our stunning survey results on workplace sexual harassment in the Canadian performing arts, film, and television industries have been published by AfterMeToo.
The report is called The Change You Want to See: Results of the first-ever survey of workplace sexual harassment in the Canadian performing arts, film, and television industries.
Just three of the many key findings are:
- Workplace sexual harassment is widespread in the Canadian performing arts.
- After reporting, retaliations happen often.
- Workers’ mental health has suffered tremendously.
Our report on key findings from the research (pdf, 333 KB) is available here.
Background information
Aftermetoo, the Canadian Women’s Foundation, and Hill Strategies Research designed and conducted The Change You Want to See — Aftermetoo’s first-ever survey on workplace sexual harassment in the Canadian performing arts, film, and television industries.
We send our heartfelt thanks to each of the 1,102 people who responded to this groundbreaking survey in 2021. The survey was open to Canadian union and non-union contract workers in the performing arts, film, and television industries, such as performers, crew members, screenwriters, playwrights, choreographers, set / costume / production designers, cinematographers, directors, production and post-production workers, and arts administrators and managers.
