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At the initiative of members of the INRS student community, a project was created to document the manifestations of everyday sexism in academia and combat them through awareness-raising tools and activities.
In 2022, members of the INRS community joined forces to fight everyday sexism. This is how the Comité d’action contre le sexisme ordinaire (CACSO) came into being.
The committee was formed by student community members Eve Bernet, Mathilde Broquière, Sarah Cavo, Hermine Counil, Jessica Dozois, Apolline Maurin, and Linsey Yvette Mouatcho, with the support of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Advisor Léa Maude Gobeille Paré and INRS social worker Élizabeth Doiron-Gascon.
Thanks to the financial support of Quebec’s Secrétariat à la condition féminine, the committee deployed a three-phase awareness-raising project:
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What is everyday sexism?
Everyday sexism is a series of seemingly innocuous comments or actions that contribute to the exclusion of women and gender minorities in day-to-day life. In academia, sexist behaviour creates a hostile environment that hinders women and gender minorities’ opportunities to pursue an academic career. It also undermines their recognition.
Guide
Facilitation guide everyday sexism is not a trivial matter (pdf)
5 posters
Portrait format for social media
Portrait format for social media
8.5 x 14 pages for printing (French), , 8.5 x 14 pages for printing (English)
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The working committee is still active and is planning more projects to fight sexism in academia.
This project was made possible thanks to the financial support of Quebec’s Secrétariat à la condition féminine.