| Sumario: | Gender-based violence has increasingly been studied across higher education institutions around the world. These are complex organizations open to the highest ideals, but also to hierarchies, power struggles, and gender differences. Many studies have analyzed gender violence in these settings, but clerical and administrative staff have been largely absent from these analyses. Through a survey among male and female administrative workers of the University of Guadalajara, this study aimed to explore the circumstances and consequences of workplace and sexual harassment experienced by this type of personnel. Eighty-eight percent of all workers have experienced workplace harassment; nearly a half have noticed sexual harassment around them, while fifty-three percent of females and thirty-six percent of males have directly experienced it themselves. Sexual harassment has consequences for both, men and women, but is more prevalent among female workers than among their male counterparts. These findings suggest that higher education institutions remain, true to their origins as male institutions. Sexual roles spill over work roles in this organization, as they do in most traditional environments.
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