Sexual harassment in the university: On protocols and protocols

Abstract

The paper presents a feminist reflection on sexual harassment in universities based on the analysis of the application of the Protocol Against Gender Violence at the Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo (2017). It shows that protocols only serve university authorities as an “etiquette” of social responsibility and morality and that they are even taken as a challenge by the aggressors and not as protection for the people affected. It concludes that the effectiveness of a protocol depends on the profound changes made in the patriarchal institutional culture that prevail in the universities.