Sherry Marts
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Sherry Marts is an consultant on sexual harrassment.[1] She is a former academic who advises scientific associations on how to address and ameliorate institutionalized sexual harrassment. Marts was a PhD student at Duke University, working in cell biology, when she experienced serious sexual harrassment.[2] Marts left Duke.
In 2018 Marts shared a MIT Media Lab's Disobedience Award, given to individuals who fight sexual harrassment with BethAnn McLaughlin and Tarana Burke.[3]
In 2020 Marts described being bullied by her co-winner McLaughlin, and announced she was leaving the organization the pair helped found.[4]
References
- ↑ Diane Kwon (2019-09-25). "Scientific Societies Update Policies to Address #MeToo". The Scientist. https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/scientific-societies-update-policies-to-address--metoo--66492. Retrieved 2020-08-07. "Conferences, in particular, are common sites of sexual harassment. “I think it’s a combination of the old—and hopefully passing away—attitude of, ‘what happens at the meeting stays at the meeting,’ and, ‘this isn’t a work place, so I don’t have to obey the rules here,’” says Sherry Marts, a consultant who advises scientific societies on how to address harassment."
- ↑ Meredith Wadman (2018-11-27). "Scientists share MIT ‘disobedience’ award for #MeToo advocacy". Science magazine. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/11/metoo-advocates-share-mit-disobedience-award. Retrieved 2020-08-07. "Marts, the other scientist honored, left science after enduring sexual harassment while completing a Ph.D. in cell and molecular biology at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina."
- ↑ Jonah Engel Bromwich; Ezra Marcus (2020-08-04). "The Anonymous Professor Who Wasn’t". The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/04/style/college-coronavirus-hoax.html. Retrieved 2020-08-07. "Activists including Ms. Marts publicly distanced themselves from the embattled MeTooSTEM leader; they even officially resigned from the hashtag."
- ↑ Sherry Marts (2020-02-21). "I have experienced bullying and intimidation by the founder of MeTooSTEM (which I refuse to use as.a hashtag anymore), and I split that damn prize with her. She isn’t the movement, and there are so many of us working to change the culture of STEM. It will happen. #STEMToo". Twitter. https://twitter.com/sherrymarts/status/1231059406328074240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1231059406328074240%7Ctwgr%5E&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2020%2F08%2F04%2Fstyle%2Fcollege-coronavirus-hoax.html. Retrieved 2020-08-07.